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REPORT OF MR. S. HOOFIEN 
TO THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION 
COMMITTEE, NEW YORK, 
CONCERNING RELIEF WORK 
IN PALESTINE :: :: 



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1917-1918 



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REPORT 

of i£? 

MR. S. HOOFIEN 

to the 

JOINT DISTRIBUTION 
COMMITTEE 

of the 

AMERICAN FUNDS for JEWISH 
WAR SUFFERERS 

NEW YORK 



CONCERNING RELIEF WORK IN PALESTINE 

FROM AUGUST 1st, 1917 TO 

MAY 31st, 1918 






Gift 



Publisher 



INTRODUCTION 



At the very outbreak of the war in 1914, American Jewry 
immediately recognized that conditions in Palestine would 
demand the forwarding of large sums of money from Amer- 
ica to take the place of those which previously had been 
sent by the Jews in the various belligerent countries. 

As early as December, 1914, an appropriation of $25,000 
was forwarded to a committee of Jews in Jerusalem for dis- 
tribution. To date $1,746,485.86 has been expended by the 
Joint Distribution Committee for General Relief in Pales- 
tine and for the continuance of the soup kitchens estab- 
lished by Mr. Nathan Straus, those established by Miss 
Theresa Dreyfus ; the Health Bureau ; the sending of food- 
stuffs by the U. S. Collier "Vulcan" ; forwarding medicines 
by the U. S. Collier "Sterling"; the Hadassah Medical 
Unit, etc., etc. The appropriation at the present time is 
at the rate of $70,000 per month, i. e., $60,000 for General 
Relief, $4,000 each for the Straus and Dreyfus Soup 
Kitchens, $2,000 for the Health Bureau. 

When the United States became a belligerent, new ar- 
rangements for the continuation of the distribution to Pal- 
estine had to be made. The United States Government 
was in entire sympathy with the efforts of the Joint Dis- 
tribution Committee and arrangements were made through 
the State Department by which Mr. S. Hoofien, a subject 
of Holland, the Resident Manager of The Anglo-Palestinian 
Bank at Jerusalem, was made the Distributing Agent of 
the Joint Distribution Committee. The report which is 
printed in this volume was received in America in October, 
1918, through the courtesy of Major Theodore Waters, upon 
his return from Palestine where he had been one of the 
American Red Cross Commission sent to that country. 



Dr. Solomon Lowenstein of New York was sent by the 
Joint Distribution Committee as its special representative on 
the American Red Cross Commission. He has just returned 
after a thorough investigation of the situation. His report 
will soon be available. In the meantime, the report of Mr. 
Hoofien explaining in detail the purposes to which he ap- 
plied various appropriations of the Joint Distribution Com- 
mittee, amounting in all to nearly $500,000, dur- 
ing the period from August 1, 1917, to May 31, 1918, is 
presented to the public. It will be found a most enthralling 
recital of the conditions as observed by Mr. Hoofien, who 
by reason of his long residence in Palestine and the com- 
manding position he occupied, is well able to describe them. 

Until the relief work was taken over by the Zionist Re- 
lief Commission, Mr. Hoofien was in sole charge of the 
work, and his report will doubtless receive very careful 
study, not only at the hands of American Jewry, but also 
by all those who are interested in the future of the Holy 
Land. 

It is not proper to express any appreciation here, of the 
value of the work which he has done in the sacred cause 
of humanity in behalf of the Jews of the Holy Land, with 
whose situation, aspirations and hopes he manifests such 
whole-hearted sympathy and appreciation. 

It must be remembered that during the time about which 
Mr. Hoofien writes, Palestine was part of the Turkish Em- 
pire and that while the United States has not declared 
war against Turkey, that country was an ally of Germany. 
The success of the Allies of the United States in their cam- 
paign in Palestine, was followed by the establishment of the 
Zionist Relief Commission in Palestine by the British Gov- 
ernment. 

New York, November, 1918. 



II 



GLOSSARY 



A 

ASHKINASIM — Orthodox Jews ] 
whose ritual and pronunciation 
of Hebrew follows the Polish- i 
Russian custom. 

B 
BATE-DYNIM — Ecclesiastical 
Courts. 

C 

CHALOOCAH — (Hebrew-Divi- 
sion) The division of the money 
sent for the support of those in 
Palestine who have gone from 
certain cities in Russia, etc., or 
who, by other associations, are 
entitled to a share of the money 
sent from a certain country, dis- 
trict, town, etc. (See Kolel.) 

CHANUKAH — Feast of Dedica- 
tion. 

CKASSIDIM — Ultra Orthodox 
Jews, who observe the Minutae 
of the Ritual. 

CHEDER — An Elementary He- 
brew School. 

CONSULAT D'ESPAGNE, Section 
Secours — Spanish Consulate, 
Relief Section. 

D 

DAYONIM — Judges. 

DIASPORA — The Exile. Since the 
destruction of the second Tem- 
ple, the Israelites have been 
scattered throughout the world 
— in exile. 

DOORRH — Coarse flour made 
from the very poorest quality of 
wheat grown in Palestine. 

II 

HAHAMIM — Learned men. 

HAKONSOOLU HASSEFARDET 
MACHLEKAT HASSI-YOOCA — 
Section of the Spanish Consulate 
for the distribution of Relief 
Funds. 

HALOOKA — (See Chaloocah.) 

K 
KOLEL — (See Chaloocah.) 

A kolel is a community formed 
from those emigrated from a 
city or country; e.g., Kolel 
America — The community 
formed of those who have emi- 
grated from America. 

M 
MATZOTHS — Unleavened bread, 
eaten during the Feast of Pass- 
over. 

MELAMDIM — Teachers. 



MITZVAH — (Hebrew) A com- 
mand — i.e., "One who fulfills a 
command shall be blessed;" i.e., 
colloquially, Mitzvah — a bless- 
ing. 

MOOTESSARIF — A Turkish Chan- 
cellor. 

N 

NESS CHANUKAH — A Miracu- 
lous Chanukah — (See Chanu- 
kah.) 

O 

OKE — A Turkish weight — 6.4 lbs. 

P 
PEKIDIM AND AMARKALIM 

BEERETZ HAKODESH — 
A committee in Holland that 
contributes funds to Palestine. 

PEROOSHIM — Orthodox Jews. 

PIASTRE — About 4 cents ($0.04). 

R 
REB MEIR BAAL HA-NES — A 

Rabbi of the 2nd Century, who 
was reputed to have performed 
miracles. The giving of doles 
in his name is a custom since 
the middle ages. 

S 

SAMOVAR — -Russian teakettle. 

SCHNORRER — A persistent beg- 
gar. 

SEPHARDIM — From Sephard, 
Spain. Originally, refugees 
from that country whose ritual 
and pronunciation of Hebrew is 
still maintained. 

SHABBAS — The Sabbath. 

SHOMRIM — Watchmen — i.e., 
overseers. 

SHEMEETA — The seventh year 
after the planting of a field or 
orchard, the produce of which 
year must not be sold, but dis- 
tributed among the poor. 

STREIMEL — A hat trimmed with 
fur, worn only on the Sabbath 
and Holy Days. 

T 
TALMUD TORAH — An Elemen- 
tary Hebrew School. 
TALMIDEY HAHAMIM — Men 

highly learned in Talmudic 
Lore. 

Y 

YESHEEVA — Hebrew High 
School. 

"YOOX" — A share or portion. 



Ill 



CONTENTS 



A 

Page 

Administration Expenses 23 

Aged, Support For 36, 37 

Agent, U. S., Cairo 3 

Aleppo 5, 13 

Alexandria 11, 15 

Allenby, General 9, 22 

American Consul at Jerusalem 5 

American Relief Fund Committee, 

17, 26, 42 
American Relief Fund Committee in 

want 26 

Americans in Jerusalem 45,46 

Amsterdam Administration 22,37 

Amsterdamsche Bank 5 

Anglo-Palestine Co., Ltd. 2, 3, 13. 14. 16, 23 

Appendices 50-137 

Appendices, Detailed Index VII 

Arrest of Colonists 8 

Association, Hebrew Women's 41 

Austrian Troops Evacuate Jerusalem 9 
Autonomy, Institutional 41 



B 

Baal Ha-Ness ( Reb. Meier) 26 

Ballobar, Count de. . .0, 7, 9, 12, 13, 28, 45 

Bank, Amsterdamsche 5 

Baruchaff 9 

Beggar System 25 

Beham, Dr 7,10 

Beneviste, Abraham 23 

Bentauwim, Air 21, 22 

Blumenthal Orphanage 36 

Bogus Institutions 40 

Bread Distribution ... 28, 31, 32, 33, 36, 39 

Bread Scarcity 26, 27 

British Rule 10 

British Soldiers, Reception to 46 

British Transport Facilities 14 

British Troops Enter Jaffa 10 



Cablegrams Intercepted 6 

Cairo Special Relief Committee . . .10, 16 
Cairo Special Relief Committee 

Sends Food la 

Cairo U. S. Agent in 3 

Central Administration 41 

Central Administration Problem ... 6 

Chachmischivili, Mr 7 

Chalooka 25, 26, 29, 30, 49 

Charcoal 12 

Charity System 26,40 

Chedera S 

Cholera 35 

Clothing Sold for Food 13 

Cohen, Isaac 23 

Colonies, Judean 17, 18, 20 

Colonists Arrested 8 

Colonists Sent to Damascus 8 

Colonization Association of Paris.. 15 
Commission, Zionist, 

11, 13, 14, 15, 20. 21. 22, 23, 2 1. 36 
Committee, American Relief Fund, 

17, 26, 42 

Committee, Cairo, Special 10,15 

Committee. Reduced to Want 26 

Committees in Palestine 8,10,17,19 

Communal Expenses 46 

Constantinople 11, 12, 13 

Constantinople. Netherlands Minister, 

5,14 
Constantinople Press Propaganda . . 6 

Consul, American, Jerusalem 5 

Council of Jewish Community 11 

Count de Ballobar 6,9,12,13,29 



D 

Page 
Damascus, Arrested Colonists in.... 8 

Damascus, Exiles in 45 

Damascus Grain Market 32 

Damascus Jews 5 

Damascus Prisons 9 

Death Rate 35 

de Ballobar, Count 6, 9, 12, 13,29 

Diaspora 25 

Disengoff, Mr. M IS 

Diskin Orphanage 36 

Distribution of Bread to Aged .... '.'■'.> 
Distribution of Bread to School 

Children 28, 30 

Distribution of Bread to Orphans, 

31, 32, 36 
Distribution of Food to Prisons ... 44 
Distribution of Food to Institutions, 

:'.!), 42 
Distribution of Food to School Chil- 
dren 33 

Distribution of Matzoth 30, 47, 4S 

Distribution of Money, 

17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 31. 45 
Distribution of Money Reorganized. 29 
Distribution of Money to Americans 45 

Distribution of Oranges 40 

Distribution of Proportions at Out- 
set 17 

Distribution of Proportions, New... 18 

Distribution of Rice 31 

Distribution of Wheat 10, 30. 33 

Djemal Pasha Opposes Relief 0.7 

Doctors 43 



E 



Economic Conditions, Jerusalem. 

25, 20, 38 
Economic Conditions As to Orphans, 

33, 34 

Egypt 10, 15 

Egypt, Wheat from 33 

Eisenstadt. Mr. M 3 

Elyashar, Rabbi Nissim 8, 10, 11 

Employment Problem 48 

Evacuation Committee, Jaffa 9 

Evacuation of Jaffa 17, 18, 19 

Evacuation of Jerusalem 9, 13 

Exiles of Hama 23 

Expenses, Administration 23 

Expenses, Communal 40 

F 

Fellaheen 11 

Fever, Spotted, in Jerusalem 19,35 

Finance 11 

Flour 31 

Food, Clothing Sold for 13 

Food, Sent to Cairo 15 

Food, Distribution in Institutions. 39. 42 

Food, Distribution in Prisons 44 

Food, Distribution to Schools 33 

Food, Requisitioned by Turks 32 

Food. Rise in Price 13. 14, 20 

Food Situation, Report to Military 

Governor 33 

Free Loan Department 44 

Funds, Public Control of 41 

G 

Galilea 8, 18, 19, 22 

Galilean Colonies 8 

Galilean Colonists Court-martialed. 

8, 17. 22 

Galilean Committee 10, 13, 21 

General Activities of Hooflen 48 

General Distribution of Funds 28,29 

German Troops Evacuate Jerusalem. 9 



IV 



CONTENTS— Continued 



Page 

Glazebrook, Dr. Otis A 5,22,28,29 

Glazebrook, Dr. Otis A., Assisted by 

Doctors and Laymen 9 

Glazebrook, Dr. Otis A., Chooses 

Administrator of Funds 8 

Glossary Ill 

Gluskin, Mr 17 

Grain Market, Damascus 32 

Grasovsky 9 

Greek Exiles in Hama 23 

Greeks Expelled 45 

Greeks, Funds Spent for 45 

H 

Hahani Bashi 16 

Haifa 17, 19, 21 

Haifa Remittances 21 

Hama, Greek Exiles in 23 

Health Bureau 6 

Hebrew Women's Association 41 

Hebron Community 15, 17, IS, 20 

High Cost of Living 26 

Holland 17 

Horowicz, Rabbi 22, 37 

Housing Conditions 27 

I 

Income Through Loans 14 

Institutional Autonomy 41 

Institutional Sub-Committees 41 

Institutions, Bogus 40 

Institutions, Straus 12 

Interest on Loans 23 

Introduction I, II 

J 

Jabneel S 

Jacobson, Mr. S 22,23 

Jaffa 22, 23 

Jaffa, British Troops in 10 

Jaffa, Committee 8, 10, 17 

Jaffa, Evacuation 17 

Jaffa, Evacuation Committee, 

9, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 

Jaffa, Freed 10 

Jerusalem, American Consul 5 

Jerusalem, Americans in 45,46 

Jerusalem, Anglo-Palestine Co., Ltd. 

2, 3, 13 
Jerusalem, Arrest of Prominent Men 9 

Jerusalem. Charity System 26,40 

Jerusalem, Cholera in 35 

Jerusalem Committee 7, 11, 12, 17 

Jerusalem Council 11 

Jerusalem Death-rate 34, 35 

Jerusalem Distribution of Funds, 

18, 19, 20 
Jerusalem Economic Conditions. 25, 20, 38 

Jerusalem, Evacuation of 9,13 

Jerusalem, Liberation of 2 

Jerusalem Local Committee 10, 19 

Jerusalem Population 35 

Jerusalem Prisons 9 

Jerusalem, Relief Work in 25 

Jerusalem Spanish Consul, 

6 7, 9, 12, 13, 28 

Jerusalem, Spotted Fever 19 35 

Jerusalem, Wheat Purchase for 16 

Jewish British Soldiers Reception.. 40 

Jewish Colonial Trust 3,5,14 

Jewish Colonization Association, 

Paris 15 

Jewish Community. Council 11 

Jewish Relief Work in Palestine, 

5, 15, 18 

Jews cf Aleppo 5 

Jews of Damascus 5 

Joffe, Rabbi 10,11 

Judean Colonies 17,18,20 



Katzenelson, Mr. Bendev 11 

Kfar Saba 17.19 

Kinnereth 8 

Kolel Money 26 

Kuebler, Mr. John 7 

Ii 

Letter, S. Hoofien 2, 24 

Letters Not Forwarded 14 

Lewin, Mr. Alter 7 

Liberation of Jerusalem 2,12 

Lif schitz 9 

Loans 13, 16 

Loans to Individuals 44 

Loans to Institutions 44 

Loans, Interest on 23 

Loupo, Mr 11 

Lowenstein, Major 3 

M 

Matzoth 17 

Matzoth, Difficulties to Obtain 16 

Matzoth, Distribution of 30,47,48 

Medical Help 42, 43 

Medical Help Association 21 

Meier, Reb. Baal Ha- Ness 26 

Messha 8 

Metulla 8 

Meyouhas, Mr 9,10,11 

Military Authorities Sell Rice 15,16 

Military Governor, Report on Fund. 33 

Millers and Traders Co-operate 32 

Minister, Netherlands, Constanti- 
nople 5 

Money Borrowed 13 

Money Distribution . .17, 18, 19, 21, 28, 29 
Mortality Rate 34 

N 

Nahoum, Rabbi 10 

Nama 23 

Nazareth Prisons 9 

Netherlands Minister, Constanti- 
nople , ... 5, 14 

Notes, Changing of 11,12 

O 

Old Clothes Market 27 

Oranges Distributed 46 

Organization Conditions 5,27 

Orphanages 35, 36 

Orphans, Problems Pertaining to, 

33, 34, 35, 36 

P 

Palestine Committees 8, 10, 17,19 

Palestine Communal Workers 6, 11 

Palestine Jewish Bank 13 

Palestine Persecutions 8 

Palestine Political Conditions 7 

Palestine Zionist Office 37 

Paris, Jewish Colonization Associa- 
tion 15 

Passover Distribution of Matzoth . . 47 

Passover Wheat Difficulties 16 

Permits for Travelling 8 

Petach Tikvah 8, 9 13, 20. 21 

Political Conditions 5, 27 

Population, Jerusalem 35 

Prisons, Jerusalem 9 

Prisons, Nazareth 9 

Prisoners, Food Distribution 44 

Problems Pertaining to Orphans 33 



CONTEN TS— Continued 



K 

Page 

Rabbis, Situation 37 

Rabbis, Salaries 37, 38 

Rainleh 8 

Reb. Meier Baal Ha-Ness 26 

Reception to British Soldiers 46 

Reforms 42 

Relief Fund, Accounts Audited 3 

Relief Fund, Accounts Given to 

Zionist Commission 3,11 

Relief Fund Administration Assist- 
ed by Count de Ballobar 7 

Relief Fund Administration Offices 

in Spanish Consulate 7 

Relief Fund Allotments 18 

Relief Fund, American Committee, 

17, 26, 42 
Relief Fund Committee Members in 

Want 26 

Relief Fund Opposed by Djemal 

Pasha 6,7 

Relief Fund Remittances ... 12, 13 28, 45 

Relief, Jews in Aleppo 5 

Relief, Jews in Damascus 5 

Relief Work in Jerusalem 25 

Relief Work in Palestine 5 

Remittances . . . .12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23, 28 

Remittances, First 11, 13, 14, 49 

Remittances, How Used 6 

Remittances, .^100,000 Cancelled 3 

Remittances for Aleppo and Dam- 
ascus 5 

Remittances Returned 22 

Remittances to Dr. Rupin 6 

Remittances to Samarian Colonies.. 21 
Reorganization of Fund Distribution 2 ! .t 
Reorganization of Relief Committee. 10 
Reports, Military Governor on Food. 33 
Rice Sold by Military Authorities. 15. 16 

Rishon 8 

Roads Improved 27 

Rosh-Hawaad IS 

Rosh Pinah , 8 

Rupin, Dr., Remittances to 6 



Sailed 8, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 29 

Salaries, Rabbis 38 

Samarian Colonies 17, 21 

Samarian Colonies Remittance 21 

Scarcity of Bread 26, 27 

Schatz 9 

Schocher, Mr. Seev 8, 14, 46 

Sephardic Orphanage 36 

Slutzkin, Mr 11 

Soldiers. British, Reception to 46 

Soldiers Families and Widows Sup- 
port 39 

Spanish Consul, de Ballobar 6 

Spanish Consul Receives Funds ...9,45 



Page 
Spanish Consulate Approves Relief, 

7, 12, 13 

Spanish Vice-Consul 8, 22 

Spitzer, Mr 7, 10, 11 

Spotted Fever 19,35 

Storrs, Col. R 33 

Straus Institutions 12 

Sub-Committees, Institutional 41 

Support for Aged 37 

Support for Soldiers' Families and 

Widows 39 

Support for Temporary 36 

Syria 8,23 

T 

Tagger, Mr 11 

Talmud Torah 37 

Tel-Awiw 18 

Telegrams, Van Nierop 6 

Telegrams Regarding Remittances.. 5,6 
Temporary Support to Needy Cases. 36 

Thon, Dr 9,10,11,13,37 

Tiberias 17, 19, 21, 22 

Ticho, Dr 7, 10 

Transport Facilities, British 14 

Travelling Permits 8 

Troops, British. Enter Jaffa 10 

Turkey, Remitting Gold to 12 

Turkish-Sinai Pierced by Allenby.. 9 
Turks Requisition Food 32 

U 

United States Agent, Cairo 3 

V 

Van Nierop. F. S 5,6,17 

Vice-Chairman. Slutzkin 11 

Vice-Consul, Spanish 8 

W 

Wadi Sarar 22 

W aitz, Dr 11 

Wallach. Dr 7,10,11 

Weingarten Orphanage 36 

Wheat Distribution 10, 14, 16, 30 

Wheat, Price of 26 

W heat, Purchase 16 

Wheat Scarcity 31 

Widows and Families of Soldiers... 39 

Women's Association 41 

W omen's Work Shop 21 

Workers, Communal 11 

Z 

Zichron 8 

Zionist Commission. 

11, R!, 14, 15. 20, 21, 22, -2:), 24, 36 



VI 



APPENDICES 



Page 

A. Orphans Statistics, April 30, 1918. 50 
Receipts and Expenditures. 50, 51, 52 
Receipts and Expenditures (Jeru- 
salem) 53, 54 

Detailed Accounts 

1. Joint Distribution Committee as 

to $95,000 55 

2. Exchange 55 

3. The Previous Administration... 55 

4. Sundry Creditors 55 

5. Jerusalem Branch Account, Cur- 
rent Money (Turkish paper cur- 
rency) 56 

6. Jaffa Evacuation Committee 56 

7. Jaffa 56 

8. Judean Colonies 57 

9. Hebron 57 

10. Samarian Colonies 57 

11. Haifa 57 

12. Galilean Colonies 57 

13. Tiberias 58 

14. Saffed 58 

15. Greek Exiles in Hama 58 

16. General Expenses 58 

17. Interest and Commission 58 

18. Sundry Debtors 59 

19. Stock in Hand 59 

20. Cash Balance 59 

21. Jerusalem 59 

22. Individual Donations 59 

23. Sundry Debtors 59 

24. Jerusalem 59 

25. Jaffa Evacuation Committee 60 

26. Jaffa 60 

27. Judean Colonies 60 

28. Hebron 61 

29. General Expenses 61 

30. Interest and Commission 61 

31. Sundry Creditors 61 

32. The Zionist Commission 61 

33. Cash 61 

34. Count De Ballobar 62 

35. Central Administration 62 

36. General Distribution 64 

37. Special Support 69 

38. Support of Charitable Institu- 
tions 72 

39. Talmud Torah Teachers and 
Talmudic Scholars — Jerusalem 
Receipts and Expenditures of 
the Special Department in 1917. 73 

40. Greek Exiles in Hama 75 

41. American Exiles and their 
Families 75 

42. Medical Help 76 

43. Loans to Institutions 76 

44. Loans to Individuals 77 



Page 

45. Sundry Expenses 78 

46. Office Expenses 78 

47. Count de Ballobar 78 

48. The Central Administration 79 

49. The Jerusalem Wheat Syndi- 
cate, Jerusalem 80 

50. Loans 80 

51. Creditors 80 

52. Food Distribution to Schools.. 81 

53. Food Distribution to Charitable 
Institutions 86 

54. Food Distribution to Orphans.. 88 

55. Food Distribution to Prisoners. 88 

56. Food Distribution to Talmud 
Torah Teachers and Talmudic 
Scholars 89 

57. Special Support 89 

58. American Exiles and their 
Families 89 

59. Medical Help 91 

60. Loans to Institutions 92 

61. Loans to Individuals 92 

62. Sundry and Office Expenses 92 

63. The Jerusalem Wheat Syndi- 
cate (Vide Appendix 49) 93 

64. Central Administration 93 

65. Sundry Debtors 95 

66. Food Distribution to Schools. 96 

67. Food Distribution and support 

to Charitable Institutions 102 

68. Food Distribution to Orphans. 106 

69. Old Aged Support 106 

70. Widows' Support 106 

71. Soldiers' Families Support 107 

72. Food Distribution to the Gen- 
eral Poor 108 

73. Oranges Distribution to the 
General Poor 10S 

74. Rabbis Support 109 

75. Talmudic Scholars' Support and 
Talmud Torah Teachers' Sal- 
aries 109 

76. Support to Individual Cases 123 

77. American Exiles and their 
Families 125 

78. Medical Help 131 

79. Loans to Institutions 131 

SO. Loans to Individuals 132 

81. Passover Distribution 133 

82. Communal Expenses 135 

83. Jewish British Soldiers' Re- 
ception 136 

84. Sundry Expenses 136 

85. Office Expenses 136 

86. Loss of Exchange 137 

87. Creditors 1917 Paid in 1918.... 137 

88. Sundry Stocks of Food-Stuffs.. 137 

89. Cash Balance 31st May, 1918... 137 



VII 



REPORT OF MR. S. HOOFiEN 

TO THE 

JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE 

NEW YORK 



CONCERNING RELIEF WORK 
IN PALESTINE 



FROM AUGUST 1st, 1917 
TO MAY 31st, 1918 



The Joint Distribution Committee, 
New York. 

Gentlemen, 

Enclosed you will find at last my final report. You 
will, I hope, excuse the delay, caused mainly by the fact 
that clerical forces are now very difficult to be had and 
that my time is very fully occupied. 

I have only little to add. I am sure that you will admit 
that I have given you a fair quantity of details in the 
Appendices but this is not sufficient, of course, to give you 
a perfect control. I have therefore had the general ac- 
counts audited by Mr. M. Eisenstadt, Chief- Accountant 
of The Anglo- Palestine Company, Ltd., of Jerusalem, 
and I have handed over all accounts and the correspond- 
ing vouchers of the Jerusalem Branch in good order to 
the Zionist Commission which will be able to check them. 

I have handed over the Relief Administration and I con- 
sider the period of my active participation in this kind of 
Relief Work as closed. Still I hold myself entirely at 
your disposal for any advice or assistance it may be in 
my power to give you as, of course, also for every further 
information on the period covered by my report. 

I should have liked very much to have been in more 
regular communication with you. Apart from a few tele- 
grams, arrived for the larger part after I had already 
finished my work, I have never had any written commu- 
nication from you. I feel bound to say that I particularly 
regret that you have not found a way to communicate with 
me during the three or four first months after the libera- 
tion of Jerusalem (December 9th, 1917) nor to send me 
any remittance. 

I have, as you know, found the most indispensable means 
myself for your account but I could not, of course, spend 
much borrowed money in the way, one deals with a fixed 
budget. 

If I had had much communication and remittance I 
should have been able to organize Relief Work under the 



new favorable conditions in a much more effective way 
than it has now been in my power to do and very much 
severe suffering would have been avoided. It is this suffer- 
ing, which I can never forget, which causes me to make 
you the present remark. It appears that an instruction 
given in January of this year to the American Agent in 
Cairo to pay me the countervalue of $100,000 has been 
afterwards cancelled by you. If it is not asking too much 
from you I should be thankful if you would explain to me 
why this was done. 

I may, perhaps, mention that though the fact that I have 
received only one of your $100,000 remittances I have re- 
mained a debtor to The Anglo-Palestine Company with 
about £17,500 — and I should feel very much obliged for 
a special remittance, addressed direct to The Anglo-Pales- 
tine Company through the Jewish Colonial Trust, London, 
as already telegraphically suggested by you, in order to 
cover this debt. 

I have had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of 
Major Lowenstein and have discussed general conditions 
with him. 

Will you please address all communications to my ad- 
dress in London, c/o Jewish Colonial Trust. 

In closing this letter I can only repeat that I am very 
sincerely thankful to you for the confidence you have 
shown me and for the opportunity you have granted me 
to help you in your noble work. 

Yours very faithfully, 

(Signed) S. Hoofien. 

Jaffa, July 31st, 1918. 



The Joint Distribution Committee, 
New York. 

Gentlemen : 

I have the pleasure to submit to you herewith a report and ac- 
count concerning my activity as your representative for Jewish 
Relief Work in Palestine during the period August 1st, 1917, to 
May 31st, 1918. 

I have sent you a short report on my work during the first 
months by my letters of December 27th, 1917, addressed to the 
manager of the Jewish Colonial Trust and to Mr. F. S. Van 
Nierop, Amsterdam, through whom you had sent me your first 
remittance and I think I may trust that this report has reached 
you. It had, however, only a provisional character and was not 
accompanied by any account so that the present report has to 
cover once more the whole period of my activity. 

Organization and Political Conditions 

On June 8th, 1917, I was asked by wire through the medium of 
the Netherlands' Minister at Constantinople if I were prepared 
to take upon myself the control and distribution of American Re- 
lief money for Palestine Jews. I replied in the affirmative although 
I knew that the task would not be an easy one under the circum- 
stances but it was clear that no other course was open to me than 
to fill the gap left open by the American Consul at Jerusalem, 
Dr. O. A. Glazebrook. I accepted under the condition that I 
should not be held bound to antiquated instructions. 

During two months no reply came. 

On August 7, 1917, I was informed by one of the Jerusalem 
banks that they held an amount of Ltq.33,402 at my disposal 
"to be used as per instructions of Mr. F. S. Van Nierop, Manager 
of the Amsterdamsche Bank, Amsterdam." I waited a few days 
and then wired to Mr. Van Nierop in order to let him know that I 
had received the money but no instructions. I also wrote him and I 
continued to wire and write at very frequent intervals without re- 
ceiving any reply. But on August 27' I received a wire from 
Mr. Van Nierop, which had remained nearly three weeks under 
way, in which he asked me if I had received his telegram and the 
countervalue of $95,000 and asked me what I had done with the 
money. I was also invited* to make proposals regarding further 
remittances and I was asked if the Jews of Damascus and Aleppo 
were in want of relief. I, of course, replied to this wire and I 



6 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

afterwards learned from Mr. Van Nierop that he had received most 
of my wires and letters and had wired and written me several 
times, but, with the exception of the above mentioned telegram, 
none of these messages reached me. 

Cablegrams Intercepted 

They were all intercepted on their way. Many months after- 
wards I succeeded to trace Mr. Van Nierop's original telegram, 
which contained your instructions, in one of the files concerning my 
person with the Turkish secret police. The word "Health Bureau" 
contained therein had aroused the greatest suspicion and caused 
considerable telegraphic correspondence between Constantinople 
and Jerusalem, as it had been read or interpreted "Herald Bureau" 
and it was thought that I was managing or supporting a bureau 
of American political press-propaganda in Palestine! 

In the meantime my position grew awkward. The Jerusalem 
Committee's cash balance was nearly exhausted. The funds re- 
mitted to me were urgently wanted and I did not feel free to dis- 
pose of them. Large sums for other purposes and a few payments 
to individuals or individual institutions passed through my hands 
at the same time and how was I to know that the Ltq. 33,000 remit- 
tance was to go for general relief purposes? In fact it appeared 
afterwards that a small part of it was assigned to some special 
purposes. 

Mr. Hoofien Takes the Risk 

As, however, the crying needs of the country overrode in my 
mind all formal doubts I did not feel that any other course re- 
mained open to me than to take the risk, particularly after I had 
been informed by Dr. Rupin that, according to his information, 
the money received by me actually came from you. 

Your written instructions in the matter have never reached 
me and only on October 15, I was verbally informed by the Spanish 
Consul, Count de Ballobar, who returned from Constantinople, 
that the remittance of $95,000 was to be used in the following 
way: 

$40,000 for a monthly budget 
50,000 for an extra budget 
5,000 for the Straus institutions 

I had in the meantime already begun to distribute part of the 
money as I shall explain below. 

Djemal Pasha's Opposition 

The first and largest problem to solve was that of the legal 
form of the Central Relief Administration. The previous Jerusa- 
lem Committee had been dissolved by the authorities and its promi- 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 7 

nent members had been court-martialed. Dr. Glazebrook had 
then managed to continue the Administration under the auspices 
of his Consulate. But now that diplomatic relations with America 
had been broken off and the Government — particularly the Syrian 
pro-consul, Djemal Pasha, looked with a very evil eye on any- 
thing American — how was I to handle the Administration ? Large 
amounts had tq be paid out, accounts to be kept, thousands of 
people to be received and large food-purchases to be made. 

Count de Ballobar Helps 

In this plight I was fortunate enough to find in the Spanish 
Consul at Jerusalem, Count Antonio de Ballobar, a true friend 
of our cause and of humanity. Dr. Glazebrook, when leaving 
Jerusalem, had handed over to Count de Ballobar the Relief Fund 
Administration. I arranged with him that all things would re- 
main as they were and we came to the following agreement. The 
relief work; would form a branch of the activity of the Spanish 
Consulate and be carried on by a special department of it, under 
my direction. This arrangement, at first a personal one between 
the consul and me, was afterwards approved by the Spanish Min- 
ister and officially announced by the Consul to the local authorities. 
We took the firm "Consulat d'Espagne — Section Secours" 
(Hakonsoolu hassefardt, Machlekat hassi-yooca) and a private of- 
fice was given to me in the Consulate. The general offices for the 
Jerusalem Relief Work could not find room within the premises of 
the Consulate and were housed next door. 

This arrangement has worked very satisfactorily until the end 
of the Turkish rule in Jerusalem and particular thanks are due 
to Count de Ballobar who during a very trying time has stead- 
fastly stood by us, ably assisted by the honorary Vice-Consul of 
Spain, Mr. Jona Kuebler. 

When I set to work I had before all to consider the question of 
the local Committees. 

Dr. Glazebrook had been assisted in his local work in Jeru- 
salem by a committee consisting of Dr. Wallach, Dr. Ticho, 
Dr. Beham and Messrs. Spitzer, Alter Lewin and Chachmischwili. 
Old Jerusalem Tnese gentlemen had gathered wide experience 
Committee an< ^ nac ^ introduced some useful reforms so that, 

not being, for the reasons explained above, in a 
position to form a regular local committee, I invited these gentle- 
men to continue to act as my advisers. Mr. Alter Lewin had in 
the meantime been expelled and Mr. Chachmischwili found his 
time too fully occupied. He too, was afterwards expelled. The 
other gentlemen accepted and I owe a large debt of gratitude to 
them for their cordial co-operation and sound advice. I invited 



8 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

a prominent member of the Sephardic Community, Rabbi Nissim 
Elyashar to join the Advisory Committee. 

In particular cases I also invited other members of the Com- 
munity to assist me and among them I must particularly mention 
Mr. Seev Schocher who has devoted much time and energy to the 
branch I consulted him on, the support of the Yesheeva-Scholars. 

I left all the other local committees as they were (with the ex- 
ception of Saffed) without any change, as all these committees 
worked quite satisfactorily and there was no reason to change 
Oth Local anything. The Committee for Jaffa and for the 

Committees Judaean Colonies were formally considered as 

only one although they worked absolutely inde- 
pendently. I separated them formally without changing anything 
in their personnel. 

There did not exist any Saffed Committee, recognized by the 
American Consulate when I took over the Relief Administration. 
And although I was on some occasions applied to by local gentle- 
men, I could not find my way to recognize any committee. On the 
contrary I found that the only sound way to deal with Saffed 
relief was that which Dr. Glazebrook had already chosen, viz. : to 
have it administered by a special delegate. 

I had had the intention to set things going in Jerusalem and 
then at once to proceed to Galilea. But already a few weeks after 
I had entered office, political conditions became much worse than 
they had been ever before. The persecutions, details of which have 
certainly in the meantime come to your knowledge, were started. 
In Zichron and Chedera, shortly afterwards in Rischon and Pe- 
tach-Tikvah and then in nearly all the Galilean Colonies, Kinne- 
reth, Messha, Jabneel, Rosh-Pinah, even Metulla, a large number 
of colonists were arrested and part of them were sent to Damascus 
for court-martial trial on all kind of charges. All the Jewish 
villages were searched for recruits who had not reported in due 
time and hundreds of them were caught and brought to Jerusalem. 
Every tenth of those who had been caught in Rischon was to be 
hung on the market-place of the village. The evacuation order 
regarding Petach-Tikvah which had been suffered to get into 
oblivion was suddenly renewed and partly executed in the most 
barbarous way. 

Travels Without a Permit 

Under these circumstances relief was more than ever needed but 
communication was more difficult than ever before. Travelling 
permits were nearly regularly refused, particularly for Galilea and 
to persons of any importance. The Spanish Vice-Consul who left for 
Galilea with a regular permit was stopped in Ramleh and brought 
back to Jerusalem. So I had to take the risk of going to Petach- 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 9 

Tikvah, with or without a permit as the case might be, there to 
confer with the members of the Jaffa Evacuation Committee and 
with Galilean people. 

In these conditions October went by. The Jerusalem prisons 
were full of Jewish recruits, some dozens of colonists and Shomrim 
were awaiting trial in the prisons of Nazareth and Damascus and 
Petach-Tikvah was in a continuous state of semi-evacuation which 
came well nigh to an official pogrom. Most of the prominent 
members of the Community, particularly my friend Dr. Thon and 
I, were guarded night and day by the secret police, our corre- 
spondence intercepted, our houses watched, our servants inter- 
rogated, we ourselves were followed wherever we went. 

Evacuation of Jerusalem 

In the first days of November the Turkish Sinai Front was 
pierced by General Allenby's troops and Jerusalem was in a sud- 
den panic evacuated by the German, Austrian and part of the 
Turkish troops. Nothing happened to the civil population and it 
was generally hoped that nothing would happen. But after a few 
days the Turks decided to make a stand in the mountains round 
Jerusalem. Turkish troops came back to Jerusalem and a Turkish 
Commander-in-Chief of the garrison was appointed whilst the Ger- 
mans and Austrians continued to leave the city. Everything eat- 
able, if not carefully hidden, was requisitioned and the mills were 
closed — a most remarkable measure in a city which was in expecta- 
tion of a siege. They were afterwards allowed to reopen but 
closed again and dynamite cartridges were laid in their engines, 
in order to blow them up when necessity should arise. 

At the same time a number of prominent members of the com- 
munity were arrested, first among them Dr. Thon and quite a 
number of our best men. Grasovsky, Schatz, Schiller, Lifschitz, 
Th Baruchoff, Meyouhas and many others. I, too, 

Arrested was i nv ^ed to "come and see the Mootessarif" 

which is the Turkish polite formula for arresting 
gentlemen of standing. The long-expected invitation reached 
me in the Spanish Consulate and with the kind permission of 
Count de Ballobar I lived in the Consulate and did not leave it. 
At the same time the Consul remonstrated with the Mootessarif and 
after long negotiations he obtained a delay for my expulsion and 
that of Dr. Thon and Mr. Meyouhas. This delay was once more 
extended but was definitely to expire on Sunday, December 9th, the 
first day of Chanukah. I had arranged as far as it was possible, 
for handing over the whole relief administration and the nearly 
empty treasury to the Spanish Consul. In the night, however, be- 
tween Saturday and Sunday the city was surrendered and on 



10 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

Sunday morning, 9 o'clock, when I would have had to report to be 
sent to Damascus, there was no official to report to and the British 
troops were entering the city on the Jaffa Road, a "Nees-Chanu- 
kah" as good as one could wish. 

British Rule 

Under the British rule the work of the Relief Fund has, of 
course, been quite free and has met with the full sympathy of the 
authorities. 

I had at once to reconsider the problem of organization. All the 
Galilean committees and the Jaffa Evacuation Committee had van- 
ished out of the sphere of my activity. .Jaffa had been freed a 
few weeks before Jerusalem and those who were left there had 
already come into direct contact with Egypt and have not returned 
within the relief organization, directed by me, so that I could con- 
centrate all my efforts on the main point, Jerusalem. 

There was no need, of course, any longer of a single leader who 
had only an advisory committee with him and I at once invited the 
members of the advisory committee — or more correctly those left 
of them — to consider themselves as the directing local committee of 
Jerusalem under my chairmanship. Dr. Beham and Dr. Ticho, two 
gentlemen who have served on the committee with conspicuous zeal 
and success and have had quite particular merit with regard to the 
organization of medical help, were among those who had had to 
leave the city before the liberation. Dr. Wallach, Mr. Spitzer and 
Rabbi Elyashar accepted my invitation. This committee was, of 
course, too small under the new circumstances and when the mili- 
tary authorities invited me to propose to them a committee which 
would have to distribute a certain quantity of wheat among the 
Jewish poor, I proposed to them the above named gentlemen and 
Messrs. Meyouhas, Rabbi Nahoom Joffe and Dr. Thon, thus 
making the committee representative of all elements of the popu- 
lation. 

Efforts to Communicate with the Joint Distribution 
Committee Failed 

Weeks went by and I did not succeed, notwithstanding my con- 
stant efforts, in getting into any contact with you. In the 
meantime the Special Committee for the Relief of Palestine Jews 
which had been formed in Cairo after the evacuation of Jaffa, 
began to send some delegates to Palestine with the intention of 
organizing relief work. As I feared that some friction or mis- 
understandings might arise between the Committee and the Pal- 
estine Relief workers I went to Egypt and arranged matters with 
them and I came back to Palestine together with all the members 
of the Special Committee. They, together with most of the promi- 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 11 

nent communal workers in Palestine, formed, pending the already 
announced arrival of the Zionist Commission, a Provisional Special 
Committee with its main seat in Jaffa and branches in Jerusalem 
and Cairo. This Provisional Committee as such has not done any 
practical work and the main result of the conference was that 
a much enlarged Jerusalem Relief Committee was appointed; it 
contained all the already existing members: Dr. Wallach, Dr. 
Thon, Mr. Meyouhas, Rabbi Joffe, Mr. Spitzer, Rabbi Nissim 
Elyashar and myself, and Messrs. Bendev Katzenelson, Dr. Waitz, 
Tagger, Loupo and Slutzkin as new members. I retained the 
chair and Mr. Slutzkin came over from Alexandria, where he had 
during three years done such useful work among the refugees and 
acted as Vice-Chairman. 

This new committee has worked out a large programme and 
introduced many reforms. In the meantime a Council of the Jew- 
ish Community of Jerusalem had been formed and when the 
T Zionist Commission took over the relief work 

Council Formed ^ was decided that Jerusalem Relief would 
be directed by the Council of the Community 
through its various sub-committees in conjunction with and 
under the control of the Zionist Commission's Relief Department. 
I have therefore, on June 1st, handed over the administration to 
these committees and the Jerusalem Jewish Relief Committee 
which had been formed only a few months before has been dis- 
solved but nearly all its members serve on the various sub-commit- 
tees of the Council of the Community which are now in charge 
of relief work. 

Finance 

During exactly the first half of the period under report the 
currency of the country was the Turkish Pound; during the sec- 
ond half the Egyptian Pound was legal tender as it is now. 

The difficulties created by the inflated appreciation of the Golden 
Turkish Pound which was alone accepted by the Fellaheen in 
payment for the prime commodities of life, are probably sufficiently 
known to you so that there is no need to dwell at length on them. 
I am sorry to be under the necessity once more to emphasize the 
well-known fact that the useful effect of your remittances was only 
part of that which it might have been, had it been possible to send 
gold. 

When I received your first remittance I regretted much that this 
large amount had not been sent to Constantinople, there to be 
held at my disposal. A large part of the relief money has to be 
used for such commodities which were only obtainable against pay- 
ment in gold. The changing of notes against gold, although prac- 
tised by everyone in the country who had notes and wanted gold, 



12 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

was officially prohibited and apt to endanger the very existence of 
an institution. (The notes-and-gold question had played a large 
role in the authorities' proceedings against the previous com- 
mittee.) After some hesitation I made up my mind to send back 
half of the amount received to Constantinople where I could have 
it changed into gold with an official permit of the Ministry of Fi- 
nance. This was done and I received a countervalue in gold which, 
calculated in notes at the Jerusalem rate left a profit of no less 
than Ltq. 4449. 1875. 

The only radical solution, however, was to arrange for the direct 
remitting of gold into Turkey from a neutral country. I very 
much pressed the point with Count de Ballobar, when the latter 
went to Constantinople, and on his return he told me that the 
matter had been satisfactorily arranged and that further remit- 
tances would arrive in gold. In fact I was verbally informed a 
short time before the liberation that such a gold remittance was 
on its way to me but it has never arrived. 

Your remittance amounted to Ltq.33,402.0000 

(Representing the countervalue of 
$95,000) 

Out of this amount I paid the counter- 
value of $5,000 to the Straus Insti- 
tutions as per instructions, with. . . 1,725.0000 



Leaving a net balance of Ltq.31,677.0000 

which appears in the accounts. 

My second source of income during the 

first period was the above mentioned 

exchange profit Ltq. 4,449.1875 

From which I had to deduct some losses 

in exchange to the amount of 324.5850 

Leaving a net income of Ltq. 4,124.6025 

I had an unexpected small source of income from certain assets 
of the previous Jerusalem Committee. This committee had, a 
short time before it dissolved, bought a large quantity of char- 
coal in order to distribute it among the Jerusalem institutions. 
The charcoal was stored in the committee's stores which were 
then promptly closed and sealed by the Jerusalem authorities. It 
took the Spanish consul infinite time and labor to get some de- 
cision concerning this charcoal and when it came it was to the 
purport that the charcoal was to be requisitioned at a nominal 
price in favor of the Government officials and their families. I 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 18 

received through the Spanish consulate in several instalments and 
without any specified account the amount of Ltq.382.0000 and 
I had to take what I could get. 

The previous committee had maintained a large loan depart- 
ment and a considerable number of pledges were kept at the sealed 
offices. After long negotiations we at last — as always, through 
Count de Ballobar — got the permission to collect small loans and 
give pledges back. The two amounts mentioned in the account are 
Ltq.372.16 and Ltq.307.25, and have at various times been col- 
lected in this way making a total income out of assets of previous 
Jerusalem committee of Ltq. 1,061. 41. 

But these various sources of income, large as they were, did not 
cover the wants of five months of relief work. In the first days of 
November the treasury was empty. The first half of your remit- 
tance had been spent and on account of the second half, which I 
had sent to Constantinople, only about one-third had arrived in 
gold and was spent, too. Then the military evacuation of Jeru- 
salem began and there was every reason to fear that we should be 
cut off for a certain time from the Galilea committees, from Pe- 
tach-Tikvah and the Jaffa evacuated and from Constantinople. 
Jerusalem, needs became more crying than ever. The price of all 
food-stuffs rose to an unheard of level and people were selling their 
shirts in the street. 

Remembering your information that the $95,000 remittance 
was to be considered as a budget of $40,000 for one month and 
$50,000 as an extra budget and your telegram inviting me to 
submit proposals for further remittances, I took upon myself 
the responsibility of borrowing for your account. / felt that in 
the position in which I found myself, you expected me to do every- 
thing in my power to save the situation and pull Palestine and 
particularly Jerusalem Jews through in some way or other. 

If I had had to close our office in November I am doubtful if the 
British troops would have found any considerable Jewish popula- 
tion to liberate. 

Happily, I found the institutions which were prepared to help 
me. The Anglo-Palestine Company, the Jewish Bank of Palestine, 
with which I am connected, opened me an unlimited credit, the 
amount of which, Ltq.12,261.26, appears from the accounts. 

The Zionist Palestine Office, too, advanced me large amounts and 
I have particularly to thank Dr. Thon for his liberal support dur- 
ing those trying days. The messenger, carrying the balance of 
our Constantinople gold, who had been held up, to my utter dis- 
tress, at Aleppo, owing to the military situation, was after a week 
or so allowed to proceed on his journey and this put me in a po- 
sition to repay a large part of our debt to the Zionist Palestine 



14 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

Office. But a balance of Ltq. Gold 2,428.50 remained. I had re- 
quested the Netherlands' Minister at Constantinople every time 
that I received a loan from the Zionist Palestine Office to pay the 
same amount out of your remittances, addressed to me, to the 
Zionist Palestine Office's representative in Constantinople and I 
had afterwards been informed that an amount of Ltq. Gold 500 
has in this way been paid. This amount appears therefore in my 
account as a remittance from you. There remained in this way 
a balance to the favor of the Zionist Palestine Office of 
Ltq.1,982.50 and this amount has been received by me in gold. 

Letters Not Forwarded 

My letters requesting the Netherlands' Minister to pay this 
amount in Constantinople have not been forwarded and have been 
handed back to me. Since then I have received no remittances in 
gold so that I was not in a position to repay the money as I have 
received it. The mode of payment has therefore remained under 
discussion between the Zionist Palestine Office and me and mean- 
while the Zionist Palestine Office appears as a creditor in our 
accounts with the above amount of Ltq. Gold 1,982.50. 

A small amount of Ltq. Gold, 68.725, had remained from the 
previous administration with the Spanish consulate. It was paid 
into my treasury and appears in the accounts. 

I entered the second period with an empty treasury and with 
debts. The first private telegram which left the city (with the 
kind help of the military authorities) after the liberation, was 
my wire to the Jewish Colonial Trust in which I requested them to 
ask you for remittances. But I remained without reply to all my 
wires and letters. As the Turks had absolutely drained the city 
of food-stuffs and the British transport facilities were fully occu- 
pied with the army's wants the food situation became once more 
very critical indeed. I had to procure food at any cost. The 
Zionist Palestine Office, being itself cut off from its resources, 
was no longer able to help me but The Anglo-Palestine Company 
continued to grant me further credits. I took flour on credit from 
the millers. I took wheat from the Government's stores on a 
guarantee of The Anglo-Palestine Company. Mr. Schooner laid 
out at frequent occasions out of his own pocket the cost of the sup- 
port which he managed for me and at one time I owed him up 
to about a thousand pounds. The Government assigned an 
amount of £2,500 for a free distribution of wheat. Half of this 
amount was allotted to the Jewish Community and distributed by 
a committee under my direction. This saved the situation for 
another week and I took £250 out of this fund as a contribution 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 15 

to our general relief work. The remainder was distributed in 
kind. 

At last remittances began to come first in kind and afterwards 
in cash. 

You have twice remitted $80,000 during this second period but 
only one of these remittances appears in my account with its 
_^ countervalue of £16,008. The second remit- 

Arrived at I/ast tance nas > as I have been informed afterwards, 
been paid in Egypt into the account of the 
Zionist Commission and will appear in its accounts. 

Out of sources, unknown to me, the Special Committee for the 
Relief of Jews in Palestine at Cairo has remitted me once £5,000 
and once it remitted £3,000 to its Jerusalem delegate whose ac- 
counts were afterwards incorporated into our administration so 
that this remittance appears now also in my account. 

The Alexandria Jewish Palestine Relief Fund remitted us through 
Mr. Gluskin £450 and the Jewish Colonization Association of 
Paris through the same medium, £787.30. 

From the Special Government Committee for the Distribution 
of Relief among Jerusalem Jews we received, as quoted above, 
£250. This amount was originally intended as a loan but when 
afterwards the Special Government Committee became incor- 
porated into the general Jerusalem Relief Committee the loan be- 
came a donation. 

Cairo Sends Food 

The Special Committee of Cairo has at three different occasions 
sent us large consignments of food. 

The first of them was a consignment of 50 tons of sundry food- 
stuffs, for the large part flour, which was originally intended for 
Jerusalem but by some error went to Jaffa and was stored there. 
I could, only after some time get hold of part of this consignment 
for use in Jerusalem and then only at heavy costs for transporta- 
tion on donkey-back, etc. Part of the consignment has remained 
in Jaffa and has been taken over by the Jaffa Committee, and 
five tons of flour had been promised by the Special Committee to 
the Hebron Community and have been put by me at the disposal 
of the Military Governor of Jerusalem to be handed over to the 
Hebron Committee. 

One hundred and fifty tons of rice have been sent by the Special 
Committee to Jerusalem but unfortunately they have been con- 
signed to the Military Governor who had sold them to the char- 
itable institutions and relief committees of the Jerusalem zone of 
which the city of Jerusalem with its Jewish population forms only 
a part. Out of these 150 tons only four tons have been de- 
livered to me free of charge and for the balance of 146 tons I have 



16 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

received its proceeds in money. The total proceeds of the rice 
consignment amounted to £3,663.688, slightly more than was in- 
vested in it in Cairo for its purchase, so that we have after all not 
lost. But we wanted food and not banknotes and the disappoint- 
ment was a very grave one. 

The third consignment was that of 120 tons of wheat for Pass- 
over use. This consignment has a whole history : I had, long be- 
fore Passover, in view of the very critical food conditions, drawn 
the attention of the authorities to the Pass- 
Difficulties over wan ^ s » but; week after week elapsed and 
there were no prospects of getting any 
matzoths at all. When I went to Cairo I succeeded with the ener- 
getic help of the Special Committee, to secure the necessary quan- 
tity, 120 tons; 90 tons for Jerusalem and 30 for Jaffa. Two 
different qualities of wheat were to be combined by the bakers, 
all the bags were sealed by the Haham-Bashi and the consignment 
was forwarded in due order. But instead of getting to Jerusalem 
it got to a certain railway terminus and there it remained and was 
not to be moved. It got mixed up with other wheat, it got lost, it 
got wet, which is the worst thing that can happen to Passover 
wheat — 'but it did not get to Jerusalem. Four weeks before Pass- 
over the bakers had not yet started to work, which is an unheard of 
thing in the Holy City. We got other wheat from the Govern- 
ment's stores, we bought wheat in the market, every day we made 
all kinds of complicated transactions, we brought delegations of 
Rabbis into the stores to state if the wheat was or had been wet, 
we sent people down to the terminus, we got wheat up to Jerusa- 
lem, whether it was ours or not was not always quite clear, and in 
short, a few hours before Seder Eve the last matzoth was dis- 
tributed. The millers and bakers had worked day and night for 
a whole month and Jerusalem has probably never eaten matzoths 
which have cost so much preparation. 

I have received during the second period a small private dona- 
tion of £9.50. 

On account of the Loan Department of the previous Jerusalem 
Committee an amount of £27 was collected. From sundry debtors 
I collected £236.842. I owed to The Anglo-Palestine Company at 
the end of the period under report, apart from the large amount 
mentioned before, a further amount of £6,444.738. 

These are the resources out of which I have financed the relief 
work during the ten months of my management. The fact that 
I had to deal with two currencies and two kinds of one of these cur- 
rencies, has obliged me to render you these separate accounts : — 
one in Turkish pounds, a special one in Turkish golden pounds, and 
a third one in Egyptian pounds. 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 17 

Distribution 

The fixed proportion for the distribution of relief money be- 
tween the local committees of Palestine had been from the outset 
the following: — 

Jerusalem* 50 per cent. 

Jaffa 12 " 

Judaean Colonies 10 " 

Samarian Colonies 3 " 

Haifa 3 " 

Galilean Colonies 4 " 

Saffed 13 " 

Tiberias 5 " 



100 



After careful consideration of the present situation I decided 
to make some slight changes in this proportion. You had let me 
know (I never received this instruction by writing) that you ex- 
pected me not to make any important change without your knowl- 
edge but you will, I hope, agree that the changes made by me are 
not of such importance that I should have had to consult you 
before. 

Moreover, I wrote at once of them to Mr. Van Nierop who con- 
stituted for me the only channel to reach you. I may here, per- 
haps, add that I have as long as overland communications with 
Holland existed, constantly written to Mr. Van Nierop on all that 
was going on and I hope that these reports have reached you. 

First of all I had to set aside a round amount for the most 
pressing need that existed at the moment, that of the Jaffa evacu- 
ated. Their situation was indeed appalling. The rainy season was 
drawing near and the eucalyptus huts of Kfar Saba, which looked 
picturesque enough and quite idyllic in summertime could not be 
expected to offer any shelter against Palestine winter rains, not, 
indeed, against any rain or bad weather at all. People were shiv- 
ering from fever, starving and dying and constantly being chased 
from right to left. So I decided not only to slightly increase the 
proportion of the regular Jaffa Committee but to assign an amount 
of about Ltq. 5,000 out of the extra budget for the Evacuation 
Committee. 

Evacuation of Jaffa 

You know certainly from previous reports that even after the 
evacuation of Jaffa all the communal organizations of this un- 
happy city had submitted and amongst them the American Relief 
Fund Committee. A Central Evacuation Committee had been 



♦ Including Hebron and Motza. 



18 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

formed, the indefatigable Rosh-Hawaad of Tel-awiw, Mr. M. Dis- 
engoff at its head, and to this central committee the local relief 
committee handed most of its funds, keeping only a small part of 
the money at its own free disposal for special purposes. 

In view of the ever increasing distress in Jerusalem I increased 
its portion by a further 5 per cent., freeing it at the same time of 
the contribution for Hebron. 

These are the main changes. It followed, of course, that I had 
slightly to reduce the portion of the other districts and as in 
Galilea (with the exception of Saffed) the situation was much bet- 
ter than in Judea, this reduction was only just. As for Saffed, 
its population being in reality smaller than was assumed at the 
time of fixing the original proportion and the cost of living being 
there much cheaper, it could bear the small reduction I imposed 
upon it. 

The following distribution table was then drawn up: — 
Total amount received for relief pur- 
poses Ltq.31,677.000 

Profit on exchange 4,408.000 

Ltq.36,085.000 
Reserve for special emergencies and ex- 
penses 1,085.000 

Ltq.35,000.000 
Jaffa Evacuation Committee 5,000.000 

Ltq.30,000.000 
Old pro- New pro- 
portion portion 

in per in per 

cent. cent. Amount 

Jerusalem 50* 55 Ltq.16,500.000 

Hebron 1.25 375.000 

Jaffa 12 13 3,900.000 

Judaean Colonies . . 10 8.50 2,550.000 

Samarian Colonies . . 3 1.75 525.000 

Haifa 3 1.75 525.000 

Galilean Colonies . . 4 2.50 750.000 

Saffed 13 11.75 3,525.000 

Tiberias 5 4.50 1,350.000 



100 100.00 Ltq.30,000.000 

The figures shown in the accounts are, however, far from cor- 
responding with the above return and I shall in the next chapter 
of this report, when treating of the individual committees, show 
the reason of these discrepancies in every case. 

* Including Hebron and Motza. 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 19 

THE LOCAL COMMITTEES 

Jerusalem 

1917 Ltq.31,355.960 

Ltq. Gold 2,551.225 

1918 £33,285.279 

The bulk of the money spent by me has been spent in Jerusalem. 

During the first months of my administration, Jerusalem got its 
proportionate part of your first remittance and when this was ex- 
hausted and I had to continue the relief work I was already cut 
off from Jaffa and Galilea, so that all the further money went into 
Jerusalem. After the liberation I remained, of course, cut off 
from Galilea and Jaffa claimed only a small part of the funta* ar- 
riving through me. 

The Jerusalem relief work is the only local work which has been 
conducted under my personal direction and it is, of course, at the 
same time the most important one. I have therefore added the 
Jerusalem accounts and a special report on the local work in 
Jerusalem to the present report. 

For this reason I abstain here from all detail and refer to the 
special report. 

The Jaffa Evacuation Committee 

1917 Ltq.4,000.000 

1918 £916.956 

The second amount, although entered in 1918, has been paid for 
my account during the year 1917. 

I am not able to present any specified report on the use made 
of this money by the Evacuation Committee as most of the mem- 
bers of this committee with all its books and records are on the 
other side of the lines. The amounts handed to the committee by 
me represent only a small part of their total income and will have 
to be accounted for in their final account. 

The conditions of the evacuated during the months April-July, 
1917 (which are not covered by the present report) were bad 
enough, but during the months August-December, 1917, they be- 
came abominable. The poor people who had sought refuge in 
Petach-Tikvah and Kfar-Saba were continually driven hither and 
thither. Every day brought a new decree, a new order for evacu- 
ation. A fire destroyed a good number of the poor Kfar Saba 
huts ; in the rainy season they became, of course, uninhabitable. 
Spotted fever broke out in several places, hundreds of "recruits" 
were arrested, there was no end of suffering. The local Governors 
of Haifa, Saffed and Tiberias tried on several occasions not to 
admit refugees or to drive them away if they had settled. 



20 Jomt Distribution Committee of the 

The amount granted by me had been asked for and has been 
used for the purpose of preparing a stock of grain. 

I have at several times travelled down to Petach-Tikvah to con- 
fer with the Evacuation Committee and have looked into their 
methods of working. As their means were insufficient, their work 
could not, of course, be quite adequate, but it was all that it could 
be under the circumstances. 

Jaffa 

1917 Ltq.1,947.500 

1918 £5,405.514 

The Jaffa Committee has remained unchanged during the whole 
perilM under report. During the first half of it, it handed over, 
as stated above, most of its funds to the Evacuation Committee. 
During the second half of the period under report it did not re- 
ceive from me any remittances in cash and only its share in the 
consignments in kind. The other amounts booked to the debit of 
Jaffa in 1918 have all been spent in 1917 and could for technical 
reasons be entered only in 1918 as explained in the relative Ap- 
pendix to the Expenditure Account, 1918. The further relief 
work in Jaffa during the year 1918 has been defrayed out of 
sources that have not passed through my hands. 

The Jaffa Committee will prepare a report on its whole activity 
during the war, including the period covered by the present re- 
port and present it to the Zionist Commission and through it to 
you and the general public. 

Judaean Colonies 

1917 Ltq.2,237.500 

1918 £666.341 

Nearly all that has been said above about Jaffa applies equally 
to the Judaean Colonies. 

This committee will present its report in the same way as the 
Jaffa Committee. 

Hebron 

1917 Ltq.375 

1918 £950 

This small community of not more than some 700 souls has 
suffered heavily from the war. Nothing definite could be done for 
it, to my great regret. During the first period the political cir- 
cumstances did not allow any organization and during the second 
period I never was sure enough of my budget to arrange any 
modern activity on a well-established basis. Such an activity 
has only been projected by me, and the Zionist Commission's Re- 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 21 

lief Department has now taken the matter up and is arranging for 
a women's work-shop, a medical help organization, etc. During 
the period under report the money had chiefly to be spent for 
general distribution on the old lines, reports of which will be 
handed to the Zionist Commission. 

Samarian Colonies 
1917 Ltq.605.440 

I do not possess any account or report from the Samarian 
Colonies' Committee. The first remittance to them was made on 
September 13th, 1917, and the last was made in the month of 
November by the Zionist Palestine Office's branch of Petach- 
Tikvah when I was already cut off from Samaria as well as from 
Petach-Tikvah. 

Haifa 
1917 Ltq.1,525.000 

This committee, too, received its funds in the months of Septem- 
ber and October. It received a certain amount in advance on ac- 
count of future budgets in order to prepare a stock of grain. 
No account could have possibly reached me before communication 
was cut off. 

Galilean Colonies 

1917 Ltq.750,000 

The remittances were made in the month of October, after I had 
succeeded in finding out that the committee was in action. Most 
of the members and among them their very active chairman, Mr. 
Glikin, were in prison. 

No account could possibly have reached me before the cutting 
off of communication. 

Tiberias 
1917 Ltq.1,350.000 

Saffed 
1917 Ltq.2,565.000 

I am in the peculiar position that I cannot tell how much has 
been used for Tiberias and how much for Saffed. The only cer- 
tain thing is that the two above-mentioned amounts have been re- 
mitted to Tiberias for the two cities of Tiberias and Saffed during 
the months of October and November, 1917. I shall explain: 

I had just remitted Ltq.600 to the Tiberias Committee in Octo- 
ber when I heard that its chairman, Mr. Bentauwim, had been ar- 
rested under some fantastic charge. I had then to suspend re- 
mittances for a few days, as I did not know if there was anyone 



22 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

left to receive them. I gave a further Ltq.600 to the Spanish 
Vice-Consul who went to Galilea but this gentleman was, as has 
been related above, sent back on the way and my remittance was 
returned with him. Towards the end of October I learned that 
Mr. Bentauwim had been released and I am at once sent a further 
Ltq.750. But afterwards I found out that this information was 
incorrect. 

In the meantime the situation of Saffed caused me much anxiety. 
You must long ago have received reports about the internal dis- 
sensions in this most unhappy community. It was absolutely im- 
possible to get a working committee together. 
Serious Long before I took over the Relief Administra- 

tion, Consul Glazebrook had already made up his 
mind to have done in Saffed with all local committees and to have 
relief work there administrated by an agent to be appointed by 
himself. He had designated Mr. S. Jacobson, an inhabitant of 
Jaffa, to act as his representative and I think that he has at the 
time reported to ycu on the matter but he was called away before 
he could make definite arrangements. During the interregnum of 
the Spanish Consul the matter remained in suspense. When I 
took over the administration I at once took the matter up and I 
agreed with the Zionist Palestine Office and with Rabbi Horowicz, 
the representative of the so-called Amsterdam Administration 
(Pekidim and Amarklim of the Holy Land), both of whom had 
also some funds to distribute in Saffed and would no more than I 
entrust any local committee with them, that we should jointly send 
a representative to Saffed. We also agreed about the personality 
of our agent, but before the latter could leave, the situation be- 
came such that it was quite impossible to send any representative 
to Saffed. 

Happily, Mr. Jacobson, the same gentleman whom Dr. Glaze- 
brook had wanted to appoint, was at that time in Tiberias where 
he acted as representative of the Jaffa Evacuation Committee. 

, , On November 11th, when the Jerusalem evacua- 

Jerusalem . .... 

Railroad Station n * ever was a ^ l ^s height, when the few trains 

Stormed leaving were stormed and the railway junction 

of Wadi-Sarar already threatened by General 
Allenby's forces, a special messenger of Mr. Jacobson managed to 
get into Jerusalem. Next day he managed to get out again and 
I gave him Ltq.1,585 for Mr. Jacobson, with the following instruc- 
tions : If my last remittances of Ltq.750 to Tiberias and Ltq.450 
to the Galilean Colonies had been paid out, then he had to use the 
whole amount remitted for Saffed. But if not, then he had to use 
certain amounts for Tiberias and the Galilean Colonies. As far 
as I know the above-mentioned remittances which had been made 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 23 

through The Anglo-Palestine Company have been paid out and the 
amount must have been used for Saffed. 

On November 18, I managed to get another remittance of 
Ltq. 1,000 into Mr. Jacobson's hands with the same instructions. 

I do not, of course, possess any account on the use of these re- 
mittances. 

Greek Exiles in Hama 
1917 Ltq.741.50 

In the month of September, 1917, it was announced that all 
Greek subjects were to be interned in the interior. Jerusalem 
Jews of Greek nationality belong nearly without any exception to 
the poorer classes but most of them exercised some profession 
which afforded them a small living. This was all of a sudden cut 
off and in Hama (Syria) where they were interned they lived in the 
blackest misery. It was decided to support them out of different 
charitable funds the principal of which was, of course, the Ameri- 
can Relief Fund. A small committee consisting of Messrs. Abra- 
ham Benveniste and Isaac Cohen was formed from among the 
exiles and to them the money was remitted. A special delegate 
was also sent to Hama in order to inquire into their position and 
needs. 

I have remitted to the above-named gentlemen a total amount of 
Ltq.741.50 between October 4 and November 6 for some 350 souls 
and they have, of course, not been able to send me an account of 
their expenses before the interruption of communications. 

Expenses and Interest 

As I worked during many months with borrowed money I had, 
of course, to pay some interest which appears in the account. 

As regards the expenses they would have been much less during 
the year 1917, if it had not been for the decreased buying power 
of the Turkish notes which, combined with the scarcity of all 
necessities after three years of war, forced me to pay in many in- 
stances ten to twenty times the pre-war value of things. Still, I 
venture to hope that expenses not exceeding one-half per cent, of 
the total amount which has passed through my hands will not be 
found exaggerated. 

I have left an amount of £50 in my hands as you will perceive 
from the Expenditure Account, 1918. This amount will be used 
for the preparing and auditing of the present report and accounts. 
Account will be rendered and the balance be handed to the Zionist 
Commission. 

The period covered by the present report has presented some 
difficulties unknown in previous periods, hard as they may have 



24 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

been. I have tried to overcome them as best I could, always bear- 
ing in mind that I was expected by you and all our fellow-Jews 
abroad to hold out and to help our unhappy brethren in this coun- 
try to hold out, too. In the first period it was my task to get the 
Jewish population through the crisis in some way or other and by 
any means I could find. During the second period I had, with in- 
adequate means, to lay the foundation of a new relief work on 
broad and modern lines. The latter task has been now taken over 
by the Relief Department of the Zionist Commission, which has 
gone into it with unwonted energy and will doubtlessly under the 
present favorable conditions be able within a short time to relieve 
the situation in a way which previous administrations dared not 
dream of. 

I have already in the course of this report mentioned the gentle- 
men to whom thanks are due for their assistance and advice. With- 
out them I would not have been able to do anything. 

My principal thanks, however, are due to you, gentlemen, for 
the confidence with which you have honored me. It has been a 
privilege to me to be of some assistance to you in the fulfillment of 
the historic task which rests on your shoulders. 

Yours very respectfully, 

(Signed) S. HOOFIEN. 
Jaffa, July, 1918. 
Tel-Awiw. 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 25 



RELIEF WORK IN JERUSALEM 



AUGUST 1ST, 1917, TO AUGUST 31ST, 1918 



General Conditions 

The economic conditions of the Jewish community of Jerusalem 
and the influence exercised upon them by the war-events are suf- 
ficiently known and I shall therefore only with a few words, for 
the sake of completeness, refer to them. 

The Jewish community of Jerusalem is not self-supporting; it 
cannot be expected to be so and it would be unjust to reproach it 
with not being so. Far as it may be from being the religious centre 
of Judaism, it still is the community of the Holy City which itself 
stands in the centre of all religious Jewish thought and to which 
the eyes of Jews all over the world are directed and their hearts 
drawn. The unavoidable economic effect of this spiritual phe- 
nomenon is a steady influx of money into Jerusalem for all char- 
itable and religious purposes. The much quoted Jewish beggar 
who holds that the rich man has to thank him, whilst he has noth- 
ing to thank the rich man for, as he only affords the rich man an 
opportunity of fulfilling a "Mitzwah" — this Jewish beggar is 
neither very witty nor — after Jewish ideas — very paradoxical, and 
his pretention comes near enough to a simple statement of facts. 
It may indeed be reasonably questioned if Jerusalem's material 
need for taking 1 charity is larger than the Diaspora's Jewry's 
spiritual need to give it. Having gathered some ideas of the atti- 
tude towards Jerusalem among the Jews of many lands and having 
acquired now a rather intimate knowledge of Jerusalem conditions, 
I must frankly confess that I very much incline to the beggar's 
philosophy. We all are, and particularly orthodox Jewry is, 
under a deep obligation to Jerusalem which has been the object of 
our piety — a need of our own souls — and the victim of our charity 
for so many scores of years. We have every year sent our money 
to Jerusalem — not enough and not distributed in a way to lift it 
up out of the state of the most humiliating misery, but enough to 
buy us the right to look down on the Jerusalem Shnorrers. If it 
was badly distributed and had not the effect it should have had — 
must we complain of Jerusalem corruption or should not the Jews 
of the Diaspora before all consider that it was their money that 
was dealt with in this way and on them it was incumbent to see that 
it was better dealt with. I know of a European religious-charitable 



26 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

organization, one of the oldest and most venerable among them all, 
which exists nearly a century without having sent only once in all 
that time one of its pious Zion-loving trustees to Jerusalem in 
order to see with his own eyes what was done with 
„ . * the money. The mythical Reb Meier baal Haness 

Collectors * s no ^ mere ly an invention of greedy Halooka-col- 

lectors ; he is a spiritual need even till to-day to 
large parts of our people. The Halooka and all that is bound up 
with it is a charitable system ; if such a system is defective, who is 
to be blamed and who should reform it, the receivers or the 
donors? 

Jerusalem's economic construction was, of course, bound to col- 
lapse at the outbreak of the war and the splendid efforts on her 
behalf during those war years are a partial paying off of the Jewish 
people's moral debt to Jerusalem. A second instalment will have 
to consist in a radical reform of the whole system and the third and 
last instalment — when time will have come for it — will be the com- 
plete stopping of charity from abroad ! 

The main divisions of Jerusalem charity are : 

a. The Kolel-money ; 

b. The special donations to the charitable institutions ; 

c. The donations through a few charitable administrations ; 

d. The donations for educational purposes. 

The larger part of all these sources stopped during the war 
and had to be more or less completely replaced by the Funds of 
the American Relief Fund. 

Conditions in Jerusalem during the last half of the year 1917 
had become more appalling than they had ever been before. The 
prices of all commodities of life rose to a never dreamt of level. 
The poor population — and to this category belonged at least 85 
per cent, of the total population — could scarcely buy any bread 
and even the small number of middle class families suffered 
severely. Suffice it to say that many citizens who during the first 
year of the war had honorably and unselfishly served on the various 
sub-committees now were reduced to accepting 
Without Bread amis themselves. A sack of badly ground home- 
grown flour cost twenty-five times the price of a 
sack of the best white Roumanian or Russian flour even during the 
first months of the war. An empty petroleum tin cost twice the 
price of a good wooden box with two full tins, before the war — an 
unestimable treasure during that last period. Meat was rarely 
seen, milk difficult to be had and at enormous prices only. Pota- 
toes had long been forgotten, other vegetables were to be had, but 
at war prices, too! Doorrha — a Palestine kind of maize — the 
most despised nourishment of the Fellah, out of which a bread is 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 27 

baked which after one day is uneatable, fetched fifteen times the 
price of the finest flour before the war. People had sold all they 
could find in their houses. I have entered scores of houses where 
scarcely anything but a few rags to sleep on were left. Some 
garments still remained and they were sacrificed now. Never was 

the old garments market of Jerusalem so lively as 
for Fwd° W during that time. Beduins and Fellaheen from 

the whole South and East were the buyers, Jews 
and Jewesses were the sellers. Kaftans and shirts, the multi- 
colored Boocharian gowns, the furbrimmed "Streimels" — it was 
all thrown away to get a few Metalliks for dry bread — and what 
bread ! A blackish green stinking mass, full of straw, stones, chalk, 
repugnant to the eye and to the stomach ! 

I, who know the Jewish slums of Amsterdam, had hoped that at 
least the absence of the severe winter cold which makes the suffer- 
ing from poverty in a northern climate so fearful, would make the 
winter months somewhat more endurable. But this hope, too, was 
idle. Houses in Jerusalem bear so little account to climatic con- 
ditions in winter that even well-to-do people suffer from cold dur- 
ing the many rainy and stormy days of the winter months and the 
poor, of course, suffer much more. On rainy days the streets are 
— or were, at least, before the energetic British road-making set 

in — in an indescribable condition, one foot being 
F . the average depth of mud-sea on the Jaffa Road, 

at Schools The school children who had remained with 

scarcely any stockings or boots, had on many days 
the greatest difficulty to reach their destination. And reach it they 
must, for only there the bread on which they chiefly depended was 
distributed. 

At the same time political conditions went from bad to worse. 
I have pictured them already in my general report and I am bound 
to admit that for the masses of the population they made them- 
selves less felt in Jerusalem than in the colonies, as the Jerusalem 
masses were politically less suspected in the eyes of the rulers of 
the country. But the organization of relief work suffered severely 
from the continuous political uncertainty and from the exceedingly 
difficult postal and traffic communication, caused, not by material 
war conditions but by political measures. 

Organization 

I have given the most necessary details on the organization of re- 
lief work in my general report. I should like to add here only one 
thing, viz. : that although my report covers the period since Au- 
gust 1st, 1917, I have not taken any personal part in the relief 
work of Jerusalem during the month of August and the larger 



28 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

part of the month of September, I have started my report from the 
above-mentioned date only because there is no other to report on it, 
the previous committee having closed its last report at July 31st, 
1917. The work was conducted by the Advisory Committee, men- 
tioned by me in my general report and the means for it were 
provided by the Spanish Consulate out of the cash balance which 
Dr. Glazebrook had handed over to it and out of fresh remittances. 
I do not possess an account of this central administration but as I 
have to report on Jerusalem work since August 1st, I had to ac- 
count for the amounts received from the Spanish Consulate which 
will be found in the Jerusalem Receipts accounts. 

Finance 

As said above, the Jerusalem relief work has been financed out 
of two sources during the period under report. 

At first the Spanish Consul, Count de Ballobar, handed over to 
the Advisory Committee in the course of the months of August and 
September all the money he had still available, Ltq.8,665.300 in 
ordinary money and Ltq.2,698.625 in gold. During the months of 
September, October, November, and December, I paid into the 
Jerusalem treasury Ltq.16,150.688 in ordinary money and 
Ltq.5,085.437 in gold. The other small sources of income appear 
from the report. 

BRANCHES OF ACTIVITY 

In giving now a detailed report on the different branches of 
Jerusalem relief work I shall roughly follow the accounts and beg 
to pay some attention to the annexed appendices in which I have 
tried to furnish part of the large statistical material. 

General Distribution 

It will be remarked that this heading, which appears with a 
very large amount in the accounts of 1917, does not figure at all 
in those of 1918. I should like to explain this fact, the only one 
for which I venture to claim some credit. 

The previous administration had spent its funds mainly on two 
large branches started by it: the distribution of bread to the 
school-children, orphans and institutions and a periodical general 
money distribution to all the poor. This bread distribution is with- 
out any doubt the most useful thing which any relief administration 
has undertaken during the war. I firmly believe that it has saved 
thousands of children's lives. I found it fairly well organized when 
I entered the administration and all I have done is to continue to 
organize it. It will remain a lasting credit to those who have 
started it. 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 29 

Differs from Qn the other hand I could not possibly agree 

Glazebrook ^[^ ^ S y S t e m of general distributions started 

by Dr. Glazebrook and his advisers and I have 
taken upon myself the large responsibility to discontinue them. 

The system was an exceedingly simple one. A list was made of 
all the poor of the community, containing about 23,000 names. 
Those were divided into three categories: (1) the utterly desti- 
tute, (2) those whose income was insufficient to defray the mini- 
mum cost of living, and (3) those who suffered temporarily from 
war conditions. A fixed amount was assigned to every soul be- 
longing to one of these categories. In the first distribution the 
categories (a) and (b) got 40 Piasters and (c) 30 Piasters. In 
the second and third — (a) got 40, (b) 30 and (c) 20 Piasters. 
Certain special amounts were allotted to the Rabbis and the Tal- 
mudic scholars and then everyone came to the office and took his 
share. 

Such a distribution, the third one, was in course in the months 
of August and September when the first remittance was put at my 
disposal and the Advisory Committee had to apply to me, al- 
though I had not yet entered office, for an advance as the money 
at its disposal did not suffice to complete the distribution. It 
was, of course, out of the question to stop such a distribution in 
the middle, confining its benefits to the fortunate bearers of names 
beginning with one of the first letters of the alphabet and nothing 
remained to me than to see the Advisory Committee through and 
when I had entered office, to finish the general distribution myself. 

I was, however, opposed to it and have not started a fourth 
general distribution during the period of my administration. My 
reasons were the following: 

Even in so miserable a community as Jerusalem was in war-time 
there is a difference between poor and poor, there are different 
categories of sufferers and some reasonable attempt at differen- 
tiation must at least be made. The scheme of (a), (b) and (c) is 
simple but it is too simple, too rough. Human beings may not be 
dealt with in that way. 

But this is only a practical argument the value of which might, 

perhaps, be contested on practical grounds. There is another 

still more forcible moral reason rigidly to do away with all general 

*x i^vi c „+~~. distributions of the kind. Such a distribution 
Halooka System . . 

jg not must necessarily pauperize the whole population, 

Pauperization ^ drives ou t the last vestige of shame and it 
favors the feeling that such support constitutes 
a right which everyone is entitled to and which may and must be 
claimed without any humiliation. A small merchant of Saffed 
would be afraid to lose his commercial credit — I have seen cases 



30 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

with my own eyes — if it were known that his "yoox" in the Halooka 
had been reduced and if he willingly gave it up he would certainly 
be considered a complete fool, a squanderer of his children's for- 
tune. If modern institutions continue to work on the old lines of gen- 
eral distribution they strengthen these ideas which they are called 
to combat. In short : there must be some special cause for support. 
The simple fact of living in a Holy City and not being rich should 
not constitute a claim on charity, not even on war relief ! 

I have myself held two general distributions but in both cases I 

was forced by quite exceptional circumstances. In the month of 

January when the food situation had become very critical the 

military authorities handed me a certain quan- 

**.. titv of wheat with the instruction to distribute 

Distribution •> . . . , 

it among all the poor of the community and as 

only a very small part of it had any food-stuff in stock, nothing 

was left to me than to resort to the old lists. The second case 

was a similar one, that of the matzoth distribution. The city was 

without any wheat for matzoth. To all fairly well-to-do people we 

sold the matzoth, to the whole rest of the population we had to give 

it or they would have had to remain without it ! 

A money distribution, however, has not been held by me and 

instead of it I tried to differentiate some special categories which 

wanted and merited support. 

Bread Distribution to School Children 

As already explained above this branch of activity has been 
started by the previous committee and I may only claim to have 
extended and partly reformed it. The motives of the committee 
in devoting a large proportion of its means to this purpose are 
clear. As it could not hope to do enough for the whole city, it 
chose to do at least the best it could for those whose wants were 
greatest, and above all, whom it was most important to preserve, 
our children. 

I wholly shared this point of view and I have put a large part of 
my energy and means into this work. The following return gives 

an idea of the extent of the distribution : 

Bread 
Distributed 
Month in Rotals 

1917 August 5,969.74 *Ltq.607.695 

September 6,722.16 617.697 

October 6,512.62 646.671 

November 11,049.80 1,125.820 

December 10,024.59 1,078.536 

♦During 1917 the currency was Turkish rounds (Ltq.), in 1918 the currency was 
Sterling Pounds ( f ). 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 31 

Bread 
Distributed 
Month inRotals 

1918 January 8,063.50 £750.074 

February (1) 6,331.06 534.530 

March (2) 5,292.59 508.090 

April 8,674.87 867.087 

May (3) 10,392.79 1,039.279 

(1) In addition to this: rotals rice 1,219.08 140.500 

(2) In addition to this: rotals rice 1,226.25 110.860 

(3) In addition to this: rotals rice 1,643.50 147.915 

The quantity assigned to every child was three-quarters of an 
okia, i. e., 180 grams. The rotal, mentioned in the above returns, 
weighs 2,888 grams. The number of the school children fed by 
us amounted in the average to about 3,500 during the first three 
months, but when after the feasts the new school year began, all 
the children of Jerusalem who had still remained in the streets, 
streamed into the schools and a few large girls' Heders were set up 
with the avowed purpose of letting the children have their share 
in the bread distribution. The number of children rose to about 
5,700 and remained since then on this level. The variations in the 
quantity actually distributed are not caused by any variations in 
the want but depended only on our power to procure the necessary 
wheat. 

In a few exceptional cases we admitted to this distribution those 
institutions which have a mixed character, half school and half 
work-shop, like the Bezalel Art School and some lace work-shops, 
etc. 

The bread distribution to the schools together with the other 
bread distributions, necessitated every week some hundred sacks 
of flour. During the first months, September and October, there 
was no particular difficulty in procuring this flour. It was mainly 

, T ,_„ . a question of paying for it and as I was still rich. 

No Wheat or ? r j o ' 

Flour Could s P r °blem, too, was easily enough solved, r or 

Be Obtained the month of August the previous committee had 

handed over the whole bread supply to another 
charitable administration but as this trial did not work satisfac- 
torily it took the matter back into its own hands and I, too, re- 
tained it in my hands. I had all the millers compete with each 
other, preventing, as best I could, the formation of a trust against 
me, and then I concluded some monthly contracts, taking the risk 
of a rather improbable fall in the prices and I had no longer to care 
for the matter for four weeks. But when evacuation times came 
it all changed. There was no longer any wheat or flour in the 
market, as nobody dared to show his stocks which already were 
small enough. The Fellaheen ceased to bring their wheat to Jeru- 



32 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

salem and the lively little grain market before the Damascus gate 
was empty. What should I do? I had hardly any stock. It 
would, of course, have been good politics to buy wheat when it was 
cheapest in July, August and September and keep a stock for a 
whole year. But experience had taught us the danger of such 
politics, as we have had no power to protect such a stock, which 
was sure to attract the eyes of the authorities, against military or 
civil requisitioning and then we should have lost our wheat and 
our money. I called all the Jewish millers and 
_ _ _ rs traders and demanded from them that they should 
Cooperate with stand by me and find me the necessary wheat. 
Mr. Hoofien ^ sen ^ P eo pl e ou t to buy wheat wherever they 

could find it. I concluded contracts for five and 
ten sacks, I had even the smallest quantity hunted after and so, 
day after day, I succeeded in getting my flour together. It was a 
question of life or death toi the larger part of the children who 
depended almost exclusively for their nourishment on our little 
piece of bread at noon. The worst was that people got nervous as 
they had perhaps some reason to be. The thunder of the can- 
nons drew nearer and nearer, the commander of the garrison had 
a proclamation stuck up, in which he announced that he would 
defend the Holy City, holy to the two creeds ( !) the Moslem and 
the Christian, till the last drop of blood, and he invited everyone 
who did not control a sufficient stock of food or who was afraid 
j. . of the battle to leave the city at once. He also 

Requisition announced his intention to requisition food-stuffs 

all Food-stuffs m case °^ necessity. Then began the arresting 

and expelling of so many leaders of the com- 
munity, the further searching for recruits and a general evacua- 
tion was, probably not without good reason, generally feared. 
The Turks announced that they would defend every stone of 
Jerusalem, machine guns were introduced into a few houses in the 
outskirts of the city and a battery took position before the 
Moshav Sekenim, the Old Aged Home. An anti-aircraft battery 
was placed right under my windows and bored large holes in the 
clouds without any consideration for the good citizens' nerves. 
Now our bread had to be baked by some thirty to forty bakers, 

most of them women, and to be distributed 
Distributed in among seventy-five schools and institutions. It 
75 Schools and cost us some enC ° rt to keep the necessary order 
Institutions anc * discipline amongst all concerned, but we 

managed to keep the whole thing running. Even 
when the battery in the immediate neighborhood of the Lunatic 
Asylum, the Old Aged Home and the Shaare Zedek Hospital, fired 
its last shots and stray shells were here and there exploding, these 
institutions continued to get their daily supply of bread. 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 33 

This bread distribution was the main reason why I so deliber- 
ately fought out my fight with the Governor regarding my ex- 
pulsion. After the liberation the situation became for a short 
time even more strained than before. My former activity in Jaffa 
as chairman of the local food board and my recent activity in 
Jerusalem had made me a kind of an expert in Palestine urban 
food supply matters and thus it came that two days after the lib- 
eration I had to supply the Military Governor of 
Military Jerusalem with a report on the food situation in 

Governor which I had to lay full stress on its most alarm- 

ing character. I was then appointed secretary 
to the Food Supply Committee and chairman of the Jewish Food 
Committee, but as there were nearly no supplies in the accessible 
part of the country, no supply committee could do great things. 
It was only after the energetic present Military Governor, Colonel 
R. Storrs, had obtained a supply from Egypt that it was possible 
to organize in some way Jerusalem food conditions. 

In the meantime it was, under such circumstances, more diffi- 
cult than ever to procure the necessary wheat for our distribu- 
tion. I regret to say that on one or two occa- 
Substituted sions I, indeed, failed to get the necessary quan- 

for Wheat ^ity together and the distribution in the schools 

had to be interrupted for some two or three days. 
Afterwards I was able, when there was no wheat to be had, to 
replace it by rice. 

During the last months the position has become less critical and 
although it is even now far from easy, still there is every hope that 
the necessary quantity will always be available. 

A glance on Appendices Nos. 52 and 66 will show that we have 
distributed food among the children of about fifty schools of 
every description. Our point of view was that we gave the sup- 
port to the children, not to the schools ; so we did not ask for the 
programme or curriculum of the school nor for the soundness of 
the education it afforded. The schools were for us only a medium 
to reach the children and our only concern was to control that our 
bread got really into the right hands, that it was well baked and 
distributed in due time. Under prevailing conditions this was 
already difficult enough. 

'The bread distribution in its present form is, of course, a tem- 
porary measure. It needs a careful revision from time to time 
and in the same ratio as a little prosperity returns, it may prob- 
ably be cut down. 

Orphans 

One of the most difficult and costly problems which Jerusalem 
relief work has been confronted with as a consequence of this war, 



34 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

is that of the orphans. I must add at once that the problem has 
not been solved and that till recently no attempt at a satisfactory 
solution could be undertaken. 

The seriousness of the problem will be clear at once when one 
takes into consideration that the miserable economic conditions 
necessarily caused a high mortality and that the children whose 
parents died in poverty were absolutely thrown upon their own 
resources, as their relations were too poor to charge themselves 
with a new burden and the existing orphanages had scarcely any 
income or means left. 

Jerusalem, and Palestine in general, has scarcely any reliable 
statistics, and I am therefore not in a position to give any official 
statistical returns in order to prove my contentions about the high 
mortality rate. But as I would not remain completely without any 
positive knowledge about actual conditions I have had some sta- 
tistical enquiries made during the month of October, 1917, in the 
registers of the various Chevra-Kadeesha (Burial Societies). 
Those of most of the Sephardic Communities and of the Ashkenasic 
Perooshim yielded some clear results ; from the Ashkenasic Chas- 
sidim it was impossible to get reliable data and the same applies 
to part of the Yemenites and the Georgeans. So I am not able to 
give a general figure for the Jerusalem Community as a whole, 
but still the data collected by me* give a sufficiently clear idea of 
the mortality rate, particularly as the second group of figures, 
collected quite independently from the first, very effectively and 
satisfactorily controls it. 

Mortality Rate Within the Set-bardic Community 
(With the exception of part of the Yemenites and the Georgeans) 





Number 


Average 


Mortality 


Year 


Death Cases 


Population 


Rate per 1,000 


1913/1914 


442 


16,000 


27.6 


1914/1915 


450 


14,600 


30.9 


1915/1916 


1,319 


13,700 


96.3 


1916/1917 


936 


13,000 


72.0 



Mortality Rate Within the Perooshim Portion of the 
Ashkenasic Community 





Number 


Average 


Mortality 


Year 


Death Cases 


Population 


Rate per 1,000 


1913/1914 


307 


11,500 


26.7 


1914/1915 


362 


10,200 


35.5 


1915/1916 


816 


9,600 


85.0 


1916/1917 


679 


9,100 


74.6 



I owe particular thanks to Mr. Joseph Meyouhas for kind help in this matter. 



American Fimds for Jewish War Sufferers 35 

In order to arrive at the mortality rate I had to fix not only 
the number of deaths but the average population during four years. 
There are no exact data concerning this matter but my experience 
in the food supply department enabled me to arrive at fairly exact 
estimates of the present population and these estimates, together 
with the number of deaths, the estimated birth rate (for which 
also I possess some material which is, however, not complete enough 
to publish) and the estimated emigration, enabled me to fix with 
approximative accuracy the average population during and before 
the war. The figures assumed for the average population may be 
considered as a maximum, those of the deaths as a minimum, so 
that the ensuing birth rate is a minimum, too. I have collected 
figures for the years: 5,674 (1913/14) the year before the war, 
5,675 (1914/15) the first year of the war, 5,676 (1915/16), and 
5,677 (1916/17) the second and third years of the war. 

The terrific mortality of the year 1915/16 is partly due to the 
epidemic diseases of that year (cholera and spotted fever). 

The previous administrations had not been able to cope in any 
effective way with the orphan problem and towards the end of 
1916, when there was practically no local relief committee the mat- 
ter had grown into a grave public scandal which 
the Streets struck even the Turkish authorities. Every- 

where little Jewish children laid down and died 
in the streets, little families of two, three and four huddled to- 
gether under the parental guidance of some ten-year-old older 
brother or sister. Most of them had not any shelter for the night 
and they slept in some corner on the pavement. 

The Governor of Jerusalem notified the Jewish Community that 
the authorities would take the matter up and provide for the chil- 
dren if the Community did not do it. Thereupon it was resolved 
to gather all the orphans who had not any relatives to look 
after them and put them in an orphanage. But it was impossible, 
of course, to procure suitable accommodation, beds, etc., for all 
those children and the condition in the orphanage where they 
had been put was a very bad one. Most of them slept on mats in 

the open air, as there were no rooms and no beds 

Established ^ or * nem an ^ they were still clothed in the rags 

in which they had arrived. When I took over 
the administration, I first of all rented a large house for the or- 
phanage, which afforded suitable accommodation and gradually 
I helped it to acquire the necessary beds and garments. I also 
arranged for a Talmud Torah within the orphanage, as till then 
the children had practically remained without any education. 

I could not, however, do anything definite as my own precarious 
position prohibited me to do the only radical thing; to take the 



36 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

whole matter in the hands of our fund and either set up an or- 

„ ._., phanag-e of our own, or have the children edu- 

Own Position , , t . , .,. • i j l £ .i 

Precarious cated m private families picked out tor the pur- 

pose. Moreover there were no families available 
in which the children would have got the proper care and the ideal 
solution, the educating of the children in the country, in the col- 
onies, could not be dreamt of under the prevailing political condi- 
tions. I could not think of sending orphans to a colony which 
every day might be evacuated, or find itself in the battle line. 

So I continued the bread distribution to those orphans who 
lived with their relatives, which the previous committee had in- 
stituted; I also supported all the orphanages with a daily ration 
of 2 okias of bread (480 grams) for every child, and also with 
some pecuniary support, as appears from the accounts. When 
new cases were discovered, the children were sent to one of the 
four orphanages : Diskin, Weingarten, Blumenthal or the Sephar- 
dic Orphanage, in most cases to the Blumenthal Orphanage and 
the public nuisance in the streets was completely stopped. The 
public was very much gratified, the children were more or less 
happy, but I myself remained exceedingly dissatisfied. 

Under the new conditions I could not at once change the system. 
I could only have the children in the orphanages fed a little bet- 
ter and looked after, but the time had not yet come to send chil- 
dren into private houses, for the above-mentioned reason, that 
there were not yet any families who could properly receive them 
and of the starting of a large orphanage of our own I dared not 
think. 

Only after a few months, when at least a limited number of 
families had returned to such a standard of living that orphans 
might be trusted to their care, the newly organized Jerusalem Re- 
lief Committee started the selection of families which were pre- 
pared to receive orphans and this work has been continued by the 
Zionist Commission's Relief Department. 

The quantities of food distributed among the individual or- 
phans and the orphanages appear in the Appendices Nos. 53, 54, 
67 and 68. 

Temporary Support Given 

When we stopped the regular distribution, we had of course, 
to do something in all those hundreds of cases of need which pre- 
sented themselves every week, or which came to our knowledge 
through our officials, the members of the Advisory Committee or 
other collaborators. All those cases were judged on their 
merits, investigated and, if necessary, small donations were 
granted to meet the most pressing needs. The system was, of 
course, a rather defective one and T chose it only because we had 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 37 

not the means to at once arrange the division of the necessitous 
population into different groups and we had to create some pro- 
visional substitute for the general distribution. But from the 
outset our whole endeavors were directed to the limitation of casual 
support to those cases where some special need called for special 
attention. 

The Appendices Nos. 37, 57, and 78 show the details of this 
department of our work. 

Rabbis, Talmudic Scholars and Talmud-Torah Teachers 

The previous committee had already, at the time of its general 
distributions, devoted some particular attention to the very bad 
situation of the Rabbis and all the Jesheeva-Scholars and to that 
of the Melamdim, the Talmud Torah Teachers, and it had granted 
them some small extra donations. But it was obvious that these 
donations did not go far to meet the wants of the classes men- 
tioned. 

After a careful investigation of the situation I came to the con- 
clusion that before all others, the situation of the Melamdim had 
to be provided for. I cannot in this report, and I could not par- 
ticularly at the time the matter was before me, enter into the 
question of Jerusalem Talmud-Torah education being* all that it 
should be or not — I had simply to accept the fact that this is the 
education which part of the Jerusalem population wished their 
children to enjoy and that there was no institution at hand which 
would have filled the gap if the Talmud-Torah Schools had had to 
be closed for want of teachers. And such was the situation. The 
Melamdim were reduced to a state of misery, unendurable even for 
Melamdim which is saying much. They died so fast, that if 
something radical was not done there was little hope to carry the 
year's course to its regular end! 

After long deliberations with representatives of the Talmud- 
Torah Schools, with Rabbi Horowicz, the representative of the 
Amsterdam Administration and with Dr. Thon, a scheme was 
drawn up for the payment of a regular weekly support, on the lines 
of a minimum salary to all the Melamdim. The Amsterdam Ad- 
ministration and the Zionist Palestine Office contributed a certain 
part of the expenses, by far the largest part of which was, how- 
ever, borne by the Relief Fund. 

The whole matter has always been considered by me, much more 
from the point of view of the children, than that of their teachers. 
If we had not saved the situation, some fifteen hundred children 
would have been thrown into the streets without any education at 
all and this I thought it my duty to prevent at any cost. 

Once the matter with the Melamdim settled I had to give atten- 



38 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

tion to the situation of the rabbis. The question is a difficult one 
to tackle in a city like Jerusalem, where rabbis, to say the least, 
are not lacking. But there was a small number of rabbis who 
might justly claim particular consideration. They were the mem- 
bers of the Bate-Dynim, the official Dayanim and some Sephardic 
Hahamim who held official appointments or situations. These 
gentlemen represented the Community ; they devoted their time and 
energy to its religious and part of its worldly affairs, many of them 
did a good hard day's work. It was only right that the Com- 
munity should pay them for their work and this 
Salaries of ., ■,., . , if a 

p • 1 t ^ in f° rmer y e ars — out of money flowing in 

of Relief from abroad ! Now, as my treasury was prac- 

Treasury tically the only one into which money from abroad 

flowed, it was this cash which logically had to 
pay their salaries. So I was told. I would not discuss the logic 
of the reasoning, but I took the fact into consideration that those 
gentlemen provided for the spiritual wants of the Community, 
which, particularly in a city like Jerusalem, were not less urgently 
felt than the material wants, and those wants had to be paid for. 
So, after careful consideration together with the members of my 
Advisory Committee and other advisers, I fixed the minimum sal- 
aries for the members of the Perooshic, Hassidic, Sephardic, 
Moroccan, Bookharian and Yemeneet Bate-Dynim and for some 
other rabbis who held official positions. 

There then remained the question of all the other Hebrew schol- 
ars in general, the Yesheeva scholars and the Talmidey-Hahamim, 
the rabbis who did not hold any special office. This question is, 
in a city like Jerusalem, an economic question of the first order. 
It does not concern a few people in some corner where they are 
out of touch with practical life, it concerns a whole class of the 
population. Among the Ashkinasim alone some 700 families 
with about 2,800 souls belong to this class. The Yesheeva people 
were starving. I could not preach them : "Go and work and earn 
your living," for I should have had to fear their reply: "Give 
No Work Could lls wor ^' or a ^ l eas t show us work." That was 
Be Obtained ^ ne curse °f the situation, that there did not ex- 

ist any work and that it was impossible to create 
it under the prevailing economic and political conditions. So noth- 
ing remained for me than to fix for all those gentlemen, too, a 
small weekly support. Once more I should like to point out that 
this support (Rabbis, Melamdim, Talmidey-Hahamim and Ye- 
sheeva-Scholars together) concerned quite an important part of 
the Jerusalem population, together not less than 5,000 souls. 

For details I beg to refer to the Appendices Nos. 39, 56, 74 and 
75. 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 39 

Support for the Aged 

In the year 1918, when we could begin to form further classifi- 
cation of the destitute, we first of all devoted our attention to 
the old, aged men and women, who were without support from 
their children. Till then I had in all cases where some old man 
or woman had urgently to be provided for, had them enter into 
one of the Old Aged Homes and took upon our fund to provide 
daily ration of bread for them, apart from the pecuniary support 
of the institutions. But there was a limit to the capacity of these 
homes and it was also much to be questioned if it was desirable to 
continue to increase the number of inmates of such institutions. 

So a regular weekly support to about 800 old people was ar- 
ranged for, the details of which appear from Appendix No. 69. 

Support for Soldiers' Families and Widows 

In the same way we carefully listed all the widows who were 
in need of support and for whom no work could then be pro- 
vided and also the unhappy wives of those poor people who had 
been forced into the Turkish ranks. 

There were about 2,000 widows and nearly 500 soldiers' wives 
to be provided for. For details I may refer to Appendices Nos. 
70 and 71. 

Food Distribution and Support to Charitable Institutions 

As this is a report upon only a certain period of the relief work 
and not a general report on the situation of Jerusalem, I do not 
consider it my duty (tempting as the task might be after an ex- 
perience of a year's work) to write a descriptive report of the 
situation, the merits and defects of each of the many Jewish 
charitable institutions of Jerusalem. Some general remarks will, 
however, I hope, be allowed to me. 

Jerusalem institutions have for years been very much criticized 
and very justly so. But it would be very mistaken to condemn 
them all together, without attempting to distinguish between 
them. 

There are, first of all, some very few institutions which are 
directed by committees abroad and managed by officials appointed 
by those committees which are really directing committees and not 
paid or honorary representatives of the Jerusalem managers. 
These institutions are managed on general European lines, not 
worse and presumably not much better than any average insti- 
tution somewhere in Europe or America. 

But they are exceptions. Most of the institutions are of local 
nature. They are to be divided into two groups : the institu- 
tions of a more or less communal character with a committee at 



40 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

their head ; and the one-man concerns, with only one leader, with- 
out any responsible committee or only a fake committee. There 
is a third group which I must mention, too, for the sake of com- 
pleteness: It is that of the non-existent institutions which are 
managed by swindlers with printed stationery, seals and post- 
office boxes, people who in every civilized country 

T t" t . would have fallen under some paragraph of a 

Institutions . . r & r . 

criminal law, as we may hope that they will do in 

Palestine in the future. The war has already done away with 

most institutions of this kind and the seals of their "committees," 

"chief-rabbis," "congregations," "councils," etc., have become 

useless. There is a certain danger that this begging industry will 

revive but under new conditions it will not be difficult to crush it. 

Now, as regards the real institutions, those which have a com- 
munal character may perchance be bad — as they are in some cases 
and the one-man concerns may perchance be good — as they very 
rarely are — but the fundamental difference between them remains 
untouched by these casual qualities. The base of the communal 
institutions is a sound one and that of the one-man's concerns is 
thoroughly unsound. 

Those institutions which are managed by a committee need only 
some reforms which, simple as they are, it was impossible to en- 
force before the war but which the present situation offers the 
very opportunity to introduce. They must be put under a certain 
measure of control of the community, their accounts must be 
published and controlled and the appointment of their committees 
must be cither in the hands of the community, or in an effective 
way in those of the donors of the funds upon which they subsist. 

For the one-man's concerns I am not able to suggest any reform 
even if they are good. There is no room in charity for private 
undertakings which appeal to the public for the means of their 
support without granting it an opportunity to control the man- 
agement and its accounts. If a man wants to devote his life to 
some branch of charity and if there is need for his charity, then he 

will certainly merit the fullest respect and en- 
Recomnieiids , -n l -c \ l 1. r 

„ , . courag-ement. JJut it he wants to remain tree 

Control of & . . 

Cl T'tablfl from suspicion, he will have to have his financial 

Institutions management, at least, independently and publicly 

controlled. This is not the case now in Jerusa- 
lem, and it opens a door to corruption which could be at once reso- 
lutely and definitely closed ! 

For both of these reforms, both those of the communal insti- 
tutions and those of the one-man's concerns, the time has now come 
and they should not be delayed. 

The war has created a concentration of relief money which was 
unknown before the war. The institutions depend therefore very 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 41 

largely on one administration and this administration has it in its 
power to claim at least the minimum of public control as men- 
tioned above. Moreover, the country is now under an administra- 
tion which, although it may be prepared to grant every possible 
freedom, still will feel a responsibility to watch over public 
morality in financial, affairs, a responsibility which the former 
rulers did not assume. 

The present centralization of funds has tempted many Pales- 
tine reformers and perhaps some of our friends abroad, too, to 

~ think that the ideal state of things would be for 

Opposes One n „ , , . ° 

c . , all money from abroad to go into one vast cen- 

Administration *ral administration, which should then assign 

their budgets to all necessary institutions and 

let the unnecessary ones disappear. I cannot uphold this view. 

Certainly, it would be desirable that all funds should go through 

one administration which would be responsible for the control of 

their use. This administration would quite as certainly have a very 

generous budget for general charity purposes (I do not speak of 

war relief now). But the institutions should remain free to apply 

_ .. A .. , to their own special friends and Jews abroad 

Institutional , , , • •. e . 1 .1 • 

Autonomy should remain quite as tree to earmark their 

donations for those special purposes which are 
near to their heart. Charity is a thing which wants specializing 
and individualizing if the human heart is to remain interested in it. 
It is a question of sound finance. A well-managed central admin- 
istration may get more means than a dozen of corrupt private in- 
stitutions but a dozen of well-managed, publicly controlled, special 
institutions, each under the direction of people who put their 
whole heart and energy into their special job, who can show their 
special work and results and appeal to the special friends of their 
institutions, such a group, particularly if it is united for the pur- 
poses of control, representation, etc., is sure to obtain more means 
than the best directed general administration which appeals for 
funds for general purposes. 

During the first part of the period under report, nothing or 
next to nothing could be done in order to exercise any control over 
the institutions. My administration, not by my own free will, I 
may say, was very much of a one-man concern itself and I could 
not create the necessary organization to attempt an effective con- 
trol of the institutions. But during the second period, the first 

steps toward such a control were made. The 

Institutional 1 1 v r '1.1. • a. j ■ i u 

local relief committee appointed a special sub- 

a~„~- +^» committee for the control of the institutions. In 

Appointed . .11 

conjunction with the members of the newly 

created Hebrew Women's Association, this committee undertook 

before all, to control the internal management of those institu- 



42 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

tions which was most necessary. In conjunction with the 
Council of the Community, new committee members in some 
institutions were proposed and appointed, and now that the work 
of the relief committee has passed over to the Council of the Com- 
munity, the latter is gradually taking into its hands an effective 
control over all the various institutions. Very gradually, I must 
add. Too gradually, perhaps ! But then it must be borne in 
mind that the forces of conservatism are strong in the Holy City 
and that some material interests stand in the way of the useful 
r .... reforms planned. Still it may be reasonably 

Improved hoped, that the end of the war will already find 

much order and organization instead of the 
chaotic conditions which prevailed at its outbreak. 

We supplied all the charitable institutions with a daily portion 
of two okes of bread (480 grams) for all their inmates and with 
pecuniary support according to necessity, the details of which 
may be seen from Appendices Nos. 53 and 67. 

Most of the institutions only subsisted, thanks to this support. 
So the American Relief Fund may justly claim that nearly the 
whole of Jerusalem's charitable system has been preserved by its 
support alone. 

The institutions, of course, could not expect to live in luxury, 
but all that was indispensable has been granted to them, particu- 
larly after the budget became a little more assured. 

Medical Help 

The want of medical help was very sorely felt during the war. 
Some of the Jewish physicians had left the country at the out- 
break of war, for different reasons, some had died and some were 
absent for other reasons. The remaining Jewish members of the 
medical profession therefore created a Committee for Medical 
Help which was subsidized by various institutions. 

From the outset, foremost among these institutions was, of 
course, the American Relief Fund, and in the course of time the 
subsidy of the American Relief Fund became nearly the only 
source of income of the Medical Help Committee, so that the 
latter may well be considered as a branch of the relief fund. In 
the course of April, 1918, the whole Medical Help Committee 
was reorganized and medical help became, formally, as it had 
been de facto, a branch of the relief fund activity. In this way it 
is continued now, pending the arrival of the American Medical 
Unit. The Medical Help Committee looked after all sick people, 
sent them doctors and nurses and distributed, in all cases of par- 
ticular necessity, rations of milk and bread, apart from the or- 
dinary bread rations. 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



43 



These food-rations to the sick, were, indeed, the main feature of 
our medical help. The main cause of illness was starvation and 
the most important medicine was food. Scores of times I was 
told by our doctors : "Give us bread and give us milk and we are 
prepared to make you a present of all our drugs. A baby cannot 
live, neither on drugs nor even on good treatment. It wants 
milk." 

We did what we could with the means in our hands and we have 
at any rate had the satisfaction, that at no time has any Jerusalem 
Jew remained without proper medical attendance. 

Details of the work of the Medical Help Committee will appear 
from the special report of this committee. In order, however, to 
give some idea of the extent of our medical work, I want to give 
here some statistical figures concerning our activity during the 
month of May, when medical help was entirely in the hands of 
the relief committee. 

Doctors' Visits Night and 

Name of Doctor Day Special 

Visits Visits 

Dr. Mazie 53 5 

Dr. Wallenstein 467 12 

Dr. Jermans 341 

Dr. Oplatka 190 

Dr. Fabrikant 36 1 



1,087 



18 



Prescriptions 



Dispensary Jemin Mosche 236 

Oplatka 753 

" Sichron Mosche 215 

Hausdorff 500 

" Rechowoth 831 

Inner City 595 

" Mean Schearim 548 



3,678 



Pecuniary Support Through Our Doctors 



Through Dr. 
Dr. 
Dr. 
Dr. 
Dr. 
Dr. 
Dr. 
Dr. 



Wallach £15.300 

Mazie 3.100 

Waitz 16.450 

Kagan 16.000 



Jermans . . 
Wallenstein 
Oplatka . . 
Fabrikant . 



15.200 

14.100 

7.850 

5.450 

£93.450 



44 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

Loans to Institutions and Individuals 

We have not opened, during the year 1917, a regular loan 
department, as there had scarcely remained any number of bor- 
rowers who could have taken loans for productive purposes and 
the ordinary public which took loans against pledges in order to 
buy food had nothing left to pawn. I do not know if I 
would have taken pledges, if they had had them. Indeed, 
when I looked at the long rows of sewing machines stand- 
ing idle in the relief committee's stores, at the scores 
of samovars, of clocks and other pieces of furniture which were 
certainly very sorely missed in so many homes, I felt very grave 
doubts whether the pawn-broking business should have been car- 
ried on by the Relief Fund Administration in the way it has been 
done. 

Still, a number of cases presented themselves where a private 
loan could fill a useful purpose and I judged therefore, without 
opening a special department, every case upon its merits and 
granted individual loans. In view of the very much reduced buy- 
ing power of the Turkish pound and the extraordinary circum- 
stances under which loans were wanted and 
Department granted, they had, of course, to be in the average 

much larger than was the custom before. 

After the reorganization of the relief committee, we appointed a 
special sub-committee for the loan department and started afresh 
the granting of small loans, for the larger part to small artisans 
and traders. 

The charitable institutions were assisted by us, not only by the 
regular support in kind and in money, as mentioned above, but 
at various occasions by considerable advances on their future in- 
come from abroad. When the situation of the institutions will be 
definitely settled, there will be room, perhaps, to take the conver- 
sion of part of these loans into subsidies, and into consideration. 

Details appear from Appendices Nos. 43, 44, 60, 61, 79, 
and 80. 

Food Distribution to Prisoners 

During the last months of the year 1917, we had to look after 
hundreds of Jewish prisoners, nearly all of them political or mili- 
tary prisoners, who were kept during many days or weeks in 
prison without any food being given to them. It is customary in 
such cases that the prisoners' relatives are allowed to provide them 
with the necessities, and on the whole, the treatment of the pris- 
oners, even of those gravely suspected, was not deliberately bar- 
barous (except in cases of "interrogatory," on the mediaeval lines 
of torture, which, however, occurred not in Jerusalem but in the 
colonies). Still, the sufferings of the prisoners were exceedingly 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 45 

hard through sheer neglect. If we had not provided the prison- 
ers with food they would quietly have been allowed to starve. 
Details appear from Appendix No. 55. 

Americans and Greeks Expelled 

The matter of the Greek exiles has already been dealt with in 
the general report. The advisory committee to the Spanish Con- 
sul, had in the month of August already spent a certain amount 
on behalf of the poor Greek exiles when they went away, and had 
made some further remittances and this is the reason why an 
amount of Ltq.974 appears in the Jerusalem Accounts, apart from 
the amounts accounted for in the General Expenditure Accounts. 
There were a few Christian families between the band of Jewish 
exiles, and the advisory committee — wisely, I think, and certainly 
acting in the spirit of the donors of the funds in their hands — 
treated them in all respects like the Jews. 

The American citizens had lived quietly enough till a week or so 
after the first evacuation panic, when it was suddenly announced 
that they had to report at the Governorate in order to be sent 
away into the interior. Out of a number of several hundreds of 
Americans, some three or four reported within the fixed time. A 
notice was then stuck up, announcing that every American who 
did not report within 24 hours would be court-martialled on the 
charge of espionage and at the same time the city was carefully 
searched for hidden Americans. But an old oriental city is not 
an easy place to seek people who will not be found, and baksheesh- 

* tt ^ loving Turkish-Arab policemen are not the best 

Americans Hoped . 1 to . , r . , 

for British instruments lor such a search. Many Americans 

Occupation reported and others were found, but quite a num- 

ber took the risk of the court-martial in the hope 
of being liberated by the rapidly advancing British troops. The 
Americans were sent off in two batches, some of them taking their 
families with them and others leaving them behind. We gave them, 
within the measure of our then very small cash, money enough for 
their expenses on the road and the first time in Damascus till re- 
mittances could be made for them from Constantinople. Most 
of them had, moreover, some money of their own with them. When 
the second band left, I could not myself go to see them off, as I was 
confined to the Spanish Consulate for the reasons narrated above 
and the chief clerk of the relief office Avho was sent to distribute our 
support was arrested (after the distribution, fortunately) and 
sentenced to be expelled. He was kept under arrest for a few 
days, till we managed to get him out (once again through the good 
services of our friend Count de Ballobar) and have his case sus- 
pended. It remained in suspense until the liberation. 

We have afterwards supported the families of all the American 



4,0 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

Jewish exiles. Details appear from Appendices Nos. 40, 41, 58 
and 77. 

Distribution of Oranges 

The year 1917 was a Shemeeta-Year and one of our Jerusalem 
friends, whom I have had occasion to mention in the course of this 
report, Mr. Seev Schocher, presented us with the crop of his 
orange grove, as he might not sell it. We had to pay the cost of 
transportation, and distributed the oranges among all the poor. 
It is the only time that we have gone beyond the limits of the 
very minimum of necessity and I hope we shall be excused for it. 
The offer was accepted by the committee during my absence in 
Egypt, but I fully endorse the responsibility for its decision. So 
many years we had fed our people on dry bread and now that 
better times had come, there was such an immense longing for 
some little extravagance, something not absolutely necessary, that 
I really think we have done a good thing by responding to that 
call and bringing an ever so little tinge of flavor, an infinitesimal 
shade of luxury, into the lives of thousands of our down-trodden 
people and, before all, of their children. If we had invested the 
same amount in a few dozen sacks of flour, I do not think, that 
for once, the effect would have been equal. (Vide Appendix 
No. 73.) 

Communal Expenses 

As I have already explained, when speaking of the Rabbi's sal- 
aries, we had to provide for some general communal wants. In 
doing so we only carried on a tradition of the previous relief 
administrations. I must admit that I cut down those expenses, 
or our part therein, to their very minimum, as appears from 
Appendix No. 82, but below that minimum I Avould not go and the 
harm done by refusing these subsidies would have been out of all 
proportion to the very modest amount devoted to these purposes. 

Reception to Jewish British Soldiers 

In the course of March I was asked by the military authorities 
if the Jewish Community of Jerusalem would care to receive as 
its guests those Jewish soldiers who would get leave to celebrate 
the Passover feast at Jerusalem. I at once answered in the af- 
firmative, as, of course, everyone in my place would have been 
bound to do. The Community was still very far from prosperous, 
but yet it would have been able to arrange for a hundred or so 
Jewish families to receive two or three soldiers each at their homes 
for Passover. But when we began to arrange the matter, we 
were informed that the soldiers would not be permitted, for sani- 
tary reasons (there was much fear of a typhus epidemic then), 
to visit private houses and so we had to provide for them in a large 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 47 

private residence, in the Bookharian Colony, belonging to a Book- 
hara Jew who was absent owing to the war. There we celebrated 
two Passover eves (as they were guests only and not permanently 
established) and entertained them during the Passover days. I 
took the not inconsiderable expenses upon our administration, 
not only because there was no other cash to draw upon for com- 
munal expenses of this kind, but for another reason besides. The 
visit of so many hundreds of strong and brave, well-clad and 
healthy Jewish soldiers immensely strengthened the self-con- 
sciousness of our Jewish population and gave a fresh impulse to 
their lives. It was just the thing they wanted after so many years 
of famine, humiliation, and sickness. 

When at Pentecost the visit was repeated in a somewhat smaller 
measure, I did not go into the same expenses and allowed only a 
much smaller subsidy, as appears from Appendix No. 83, which, 
however, together with other means collected within the Com- 
munity, allowed us to prepare a cordial reception to our dear 
guests. 

I am fully conscious that the expenses under this heading do 
not properly belong to war relief, but I am sure that — quite apart 
from our duty to exercise hospitality towards the boys who risked 
their lives for us, but as money used for the benefit of the Com- 
munity, these expenses are one of our best investments. 

Distribution of Matzoth for Passover 

Passover is and has always been an expensive feast for all Jews 
who keep it ! However poor a Jew may be — at Passover his chil- 
dren must have a pair of new shoes, a cap, a little Shabbes-garment 
or the house wants some new furniture. Besides food — and an ex- 
pensive kind of food — must be provided for a whole week during 
which nothing or next to nothing can be earned. 

During the war, Jerusalem Jews have learned to keep Passover 
without new shoes and new furniture — but not yet without 
matzoth ! 

Being at the head of the Community, and at the head of the re- 
lief administration at the same time, I was under the responsibility 
of providing matzoth for the whole Jewish population. And this at 
the time that one single ton of wheat played a large role in the 
food controller's calculations and the 120 tons wanted for matzoth 
were not to be found within the whole occupied territory. 

I discussed the problem on several occasions with the authorities 
and, thanks to the energetic help of the military governor of 
Jerusalem, I succeeded, during my stay in Egypt, in getting from 
the food controller of Egypt a special permit for the import of 
120 tons of wheat from Egypt to Palestine. It was not enough 
but it went very far to cover our wants and we were able to pro- 



48 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

cure the balance on the spot. I have already in my general re- 
port told the story of this Egyptian grain. 

We had, being the only corporation in the possession of wheat, 
not only to provide for the free distribution of matzoth but also 
to bake the matzoth for those who paid for it. We were hardly 
pressed for time. At Purim, when in ordinary years all the Pass- 
over wheat is already ground and part of the matzoth are baked, 
we only began to receive a few tons out of the 90 allotted to Jeru- 
salem out of the 120 brought from Egypt. But I got the millers 
and bakers to work day and night and they got through it in due 
time. 

The details of the distribution appear from Appendix No. 81. 
We distributed some rice besides (which was specially declared 
allowed for Passover use) and also wine for Passover use. 

General Activities 

Apart from all these above specified branches of activity, we 
on frequent occasions have, without or nearly without making 
actual cash outlays, interfered on behalf of individuals, parts of 
the Community or the Community as a whole, with civil, mili- 
tary and consular authorities, very often with good success, par- 
ticularly after the liberation. My position as head of the relief 
administration placed me, even before I was formally elected as 
such, de facto at the head of the Community, and so I had to rep- 
resent it on various occasions, to plead for its wants and to protect 
its interests. 

We have also tried to find work for all those who were fit for 
work. During the first period, our endeavors in this respect con- 
sisted mainly in the support of women's workshops. During the 
second period we succeeded now and then in getting some govern- 
ment work (road making, etc.) for our unskilled laborers. But 
much remains still to be done in this respect and the Zionist Com- 
mission is now giving particular attention to the matter. 

It will certainly be noted with some interest that apart from 
the unusual concentration of Jerusalem charity in the American 
Relief Fund, during my administration, a further step was made 
towards the unification of Jerusalem charities. In the month of 
October, 1917, I invited the representatives of the Amsterdam Ad- 
ministration (Pekidim and Amarkalim Beeretz Hakodesh) and 
the Zionist Palestine Office to some conferences, in which we dis- 
cussed most of the problems which were then before us. A prac- 
tical outcome of these conferences was the common scheme for the 
support of the Melamdim and Talmudic scholars. 

The Future Outlook 
I beg to be permitted to close this report with a few words on 
the probable future development. 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 49 

We are already very far from the conditions of December, 1917. 
Children, swollen from starvation, are now no longer to be found, 
no orphans are begging in the streets, work is provided for many 
hundreds of women, the organization of relief work is steadily 
further progressing, the army brings some money into the coun- 
try and the small traders and shopkeepers profit from it. There 
is a little revival in general trade and private remittances are 
forthcoming from America, England, South Africa, etc. 

But we are still in war time and suffering from the war. The 
somewhat increased earnings are swallowed by the enormous in- 
crease in the cost of living and there is as yet no sound economic 
basis for real prosperity. War relief will have to be continued and 
there are particularly good reasons for continuing it, now that 
it is possible to administer it under favorable conditions. 

I have spoken of the reform of Jerusalem charity and I have 
ventured to point out that the duty to carry it through rests on 
the donors. Now is the time for it! Most of the donors in America 
are united. With those in other allied countries they could easily 
come to an understanding and it should be possible afterwards, 
when regular communication with Russia will once more be estab- 
lished, to arrive at an agreement with Russian Jews, too. The 
Jewish Community of Jerusalem is organized; there is also a 
Central Relief Administration which enjoys the confidence of , the 
government and the confidence of the donors. 

A reform of Jewish charity in Jerusalem should be carried 
through on the following base : 

(a) Honest administration and public accounts. 

(6) Use of charity money only for those who are in want of 
charity. 

(c) Use of all further funds either for constructive economic 
work, for educational and general cultural work or for purely re- 
ligious purposes. 

The Halooka, need not be entirely abolished. It should, how- 
ever, be thoroughly revised and brought back to its original idea, 
the support of Jewish learning in the Holy City, and its regional 
character should certainly be taken from it. 

All this can and should be done or prepared now. There is no 
reason to wait and there is large danger in delay. Our work, that 
of the American Relief Fund, has laid strong foundations for this 
reform and it would be unpardonable if we let the proper moment 
pass. 

I am under the impression that it belongs to the Joint Dis- 
tribution Committee to take the initiative in the matter. 

S. HOOFIEN. 



50 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

APPENDIX A. 

A Few Statistical Figures About Orphans in Jerusalem (Situation of 

April 30th, 1918.) 

Number of Ashkenazic Orphans 1153 

Number of Sephardic Orphans 1417 

2570 



Boys 1124 

Girls 1446 

2570 

Aged 1 to 6 424 

Aged 6 to 1 1 928 

Aged 11 to 15 1078 

Aged 15 to 17 145 

2570 

Both parents deceased 520 

Father deceased 1714 

Mother deceased and father absent 285 

Both parents absent 51 

2570 

The above figures do not include the orphans cared for in the Orphan- 
ages. 

Cared for in the Diskin Orphanage 160 

Cared for in the Blumenthal Orphanage 150 

Cared for in the Weingarten Orphanage 89 

Cared for in the Sephardic Orphanage 21 



420 

AUGUST 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1917. 

Receipts. 

The Joint Distribution Committee, as per Appendix 1 . . Ltq.3 1,677.0000 

Exchange, as per Appendix 2 4,124.6025 

The Previous Administration, as per Appendix 3 1,061.4100 

Sundry Creditors, as per Appendix 4 12.7500 

The Anglo-Palestine Company, Limited 12,261.2650 

Ltq.49, 137.0276 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 51 

AUGUST 1 TO DECEMBER 81, 1917. 

Expenditure. 

Jerusalem, as per Appendix 5 Ltq.31,855.9600 

Jaffa Evacuation Committee, as per Appendix 6 4,000.0000 

Jaffa, as per Appendix 7 1,947.5000 

Judaean Colonies, as per Appendix 8 2,237.5000 

Hebron, as per Appendix 9 375.0000 

Samarian Colonies, as per Appendix 10 605.4400 

Haifa, as per Appendix 11 1,525.0000 

Galilean Colonies, as per Appendix 12 750.0000 

Tiberias, as per Appendix 13 1,350.0000 

Saffed, as per Appendix 14 2,565.0000 

Greek Exiles in Hama, as per Appendix 15 741.5000 

General Expenses, as per Appendix 16 335.0980 

Interest and Commission, as per Appendix 17 196.9200 

Sundry Debtors as per Appendix 18 834.8000 

Stock in hand, as per Appendix 19 , 92.9500 

Cash, as per Appendix 20 724.3595 

Ltq.49,187.0275 



AUGUST 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1917. 
Receipts in Gold. 

The Previous Administration of Relief through the Spanish 

Consulate Ltq.68.7250 

The Joint Distribution Committee (its payment through the 

Netherlands' Minister in Constantinople) 500.0000 

Zionist Palestine Office, loan 1,982.5000 

Ltq.2,551.2250 



AUGUST 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1917. 

Expenditure in Gold. 

Jerusalem, as per Appendix 21 Ltq.2,551.2250 



52 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

JANUARY 1 TO MAY 81, .1918. 

Receipts. 

The Joint Distribution Committee $80,000.0000 £16,008.0000 

Different Committees through The Special 
Committee for the Relief of Jews in Pal- 
estine: 

First Remittance £3,000.0000 

Second Remittance 5,000.0000 

8,000.0000 



Consignments in kind through The Special 
Committee: 

1. 50 Tons of Sundry Food-stuffs £2,102.2410 

2. 120 Tons of Passover Wheat. . 4,066.0000 
8. 150 Tons of Rice 3,663.6880 



The Alexandria Jewish Palestine Relief Fund 

The Jewish Colonization Association 

Individual Donations, Appendix 22 

The Previous Administration; collected on account of 
the previous Loan Department 

Special Committee for the Distribution of the Govern- 
ment Relief in Jerusalem 

Sundry Debtors, collected, as per Appendix 23 

Proceeds of Stock in Hand, December 81, 1917 

The Anglo-Palestine Company, Limited 



9,831.9290 

450.0000 

787.3000 

9.5000 

27.0000 

250.0000 

236.8420 

81.5700 

6,620.9660 



£42,808.1070 



JANUARY 1 TO MAY 81, 1918. 

Expenditure : 

Jerusalem, as per Appendix 24 £33,285.2790 

Jaffa Evacuation Committee, as per Appendix 25 916.9560 

Jaffa, as per Appendix 26 5,405.5140 

Judaean Colonies, as per Appendix 27 566.3410 

Hebron, as per Appendix 28 950.0000 

General Expenses, as per Appendix 29 222.4850 

Interest and Commission, as per Appendix 30 674.3420 

Sundry Creditors, as per Appendix 31 11.1900 

The Zionist Commission, as per Appendix 32 121.0000 

Cash, as per Appendix 33 50.0000 



£42,303.1070 



Audited and found correct 
Jerusalem, July 31st, 1918 



(Signed) S. HOOFIEN 
(Signed) I. EISENSTADT 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 58 

JERUSALEM. 

AUGUST 1 TO DECEMBER 81, 1917. 

Receipts. 

Balance in Cash on July 31, as per report of previous 

Committees Ltq.278.9670 

Count de Ballobar, as per Appendix 34< 8,665.3000 

Central Administration, as per Appendix 35 16,150.6880 

Ltq.25,094.9550 
Expenditure. 

General Distribution, as per Appendix 36 Ltq.l 1,537.7500 

Special Support, as per Appendix 37 2,981.9200 

Support of Charitable Institutions, as per Appendix 38 551.4000 
Talmud-Torah Teachers and Talmudic Scholars, as per 

Appendix 39 4,066.5000 

Greek Exiles in Hama, as per Appendix 40 974.0000 

American Exiles and their families, as per Appendix 41 55.8500 

Medical Help, as per Appendix 42 2,940.2500 

Loans to Institutions, as per Appendix 43 1,006.0000 

Loans to Individuals, as per Appendix 44 530.0000 

Sundry Expenses, as per Appendix 45 133.7300 

Office Expenses, as per Appendix 46 407.5550 

Ltq.25,094.9550 
JERUSALEM. 

AUGUST 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1917. 

Receipts in Gold. 

Balance in Cash on July, as per report of previous 

Committee Ltq.20.9640 

Count de Ballobar, as per Appendix 47 2,698.6250 

Central Administration, as per Appendix 48 5,085.4370 

The Jerusalem Wheat Syndicate, as per Appendix 49 . . 372.0950 

Loans, as per Appendix 50 12.2620 

Creditors, as per Appendix 51 563.2100 

Ltq.8,752.5930 

Expenditure in Gold. 

Food Distribution to Schools, as per Appendix 52 Ltq.4,076.4190 

Food Distribution to Charitable Institutions, as per Ap- 
pendix 53 1,490.7390 

Food Distribution to Orphans, as per Appendix 54. . . . 1,574.6160 
Food Distribution to Prisoners, as per Appendix 55. . . . 183.3070 
Food Distribution to Talmud-Torah Teachers and Tal- 
mudic Scholars, as per Appendix 56 125.7530 

Special Support, as per Appendix 57 5.2650 



54 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

American Exiles and their families, as per Appendix 58. Ltq.138.9750 

Medical Help, as per Appendix 59 73.4060 

Loans to Institutions, as per Appendix 60 162.6050 

Loans to Individuals, as per Appendix 61 15.1520 

Sundry and Office Expenses, as per Appendix 62 242.2090 

The Jerusalem Wheat Syndicate, as per Appendix 63 . . 222.0950 

Balance in Cash on December 31 442.0520 



Ltq.Gold8,752.5930 
JERUSALEM. 

JANUARY 1 TO MAY 31, 1918. 

Receipts. 

Balance in Cash on January 1, as per account of 1917 

Ltq.Gold442.0520 £387.9000 

Central Administration, as per Appendix 64 83,285.2790 

Sundry Debtors, as per Appendix 65 133.8200 



£33,806.9990 
Expenditure. 

Food Distribution to Schools, as per Appendix 66 £4,046.5850 

Food Distribution and Support to Charitable Institutions, 

as per Appendix 67 3,575.1380 

Food Distribution to Orphans, as per Appendix 68 1,273.8930 

Old Aged Support, as per Appendix 69 765.7850 

Widows' Support, as per Appendix 70 1,478.6560 

Soldiers' Families Support, as per Appendix 71 1,322.1000 

Food Distribution to the General Poor, as per Appendix 

72 414.2700 

Oranges Distribution to General Poor, as per Appendix 73 138.1600 

Rabbis' Support, as per Appendix 74 519.3160 

Talmudic Scholars' Support and Talmud-Torah Teach- 
ers' Salaries, as per Appendix 75 5,553.4080 

Support to Individual Cases, as per Appendix 76.... 719.5480 

American Exiles and their Families, as per Appendix 77 406.1750 

Medical Help, as per Appendix 78 1,156.0930 

Loans to Institutions, as per Appendix 79 1,656.9850 

Loans to Individuals, as per Appendix 80 1,090.5500 

Passover Distribution, as per Appendix 81 6,498.2180 

Communal Expenses, as per Appendix 82 65.1500 

Jewish British Soldiers' Reception, as per Appendix 83 . . 572.6600 

Sundry Expenses, as per Appendix 84 860.6800 

Office Expenses, as per Appendix 85 867.5010 

Loss of Exchange, as per Appendix 86 204.4270 

Sundry Creditors, as per Appendix 87 494.2200 

Sundry Stocks of Food Stuffs, as per Appendix 88 . . . . 71.7910 

Cash, as per Appendix 89 55.6900 



£33,806.9990 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 55 

APPENDIX 1. 

The Joint Distribution Committee. 

Their remittances 

$95,000 Ltq33,402.0000 

$5,000 for the Straus Institutions 1,725.0000 



Ltq.3 1,677.0000 



APPENDIX 2. 

Exchange. 

Remitted back to Constantinople Ltq.16,534.6500 

Expenses on this remittance 124.1625 

16,658.8125 
Received from Constantinople the countervalue in gold of 

Ltq.Gold3,533.0000 21,108.0000 

Exchange profit 4,449.1875 

Balance of Exchange profit and losses on various smaller 

transactions 324.5850 

Ltq.4,1 24.6025 



APPENDIX 3. 

The Previous Administration. 

Proceeds of Charcoal (Vide Report) Ltq.382.0000 

Proceeds of Loan Department (Vide Report) 679.4100 



Ltq. 1,06 1.4 100 



APPENDIX 4. 

Sundry Creditors. 

S. Hoofien (as representative of the British Palestine 

Fund) Ltq.12.7500 



56 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

APPENDIX 5 

The Jerusalem Branch has received in current money. . Ltq.3 1,355.9600 
And in gold Ltq.2,55 1.2250 at the rate of 6 15,307.3500 

Ltq.46,663.3100 
The Jerusalem Branch reports to have received in current 

money Ltq.16,150.6880 

Gold Ltq.5,085.437 at the rate of 6 30,512.6220 

Ltq.46,663.8100 

The proceeds in Gold of Ltq. 16,65 8.8 125 current money 
remitted to Constantinople were, as per Appendix 
2 Ltq.G.3,533.0000 

Out of this amount various branches and expenses have 

used the amount of 998.7880 

The Jerusalem Branch has got Ltq.G.2,534.2120 

And it has got out of the Gold remittance 2,551.2250 

Making a total of Ltq.G.5,085.4370 



APPENDIX 6. 

Jaffa Evacuation Committee. 

1917 Sept. 12 Remitted Ltq.3,000.0000 

Sept. 27 Remitted 1,000.0000 

Nov. 15 Remitted 1,000.0000 

Ltq.5,000.0000 
Nov. 16 Remittance came back as the messen- 
ger could no longer reach Petach- 
Tikvah 1,000.0000 

Ltq.4,000.0000 



APPENDIX 7. 

Jaffa. 

1917 Oct. 16 Remitted Ltq. 1,560.0000 

Nov. 18 Paid for their account 67.5000 

Dec. 14 Paid them in Petach-Tikvah 320.0000 

Ltq. 1,947.5000 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 57 

APPENDIX 8. 

Judaean Colonies. 

1917 Oct. 26 Paid for their account to prisoners in 

Jerusalem Ltq.10.0000 

Oct. 26 Remitted 1,200.0000 

Remitted 1,275.0000 

Remitted 75.0000 

Nov. 7 Paid for their account 10.0000 

Nov. 18 Paid for their account 67.5000 

Ltq.2,637.5000 
Dec. 3 1 Remittances not paid out to them 400.0000 

Ltq.2,237.5000 
APPENDIX 9. 

Hebron. 
1917 Nov. 6 Remitted Ltq.375.0000 

APPENDIX 10. 

Samarian Colonies. 

1917 Sept. 13 Paid to the Hedera Sub-Committee.. Ltq.200.0000 

Oct. 12 Remitted 109.200^ 

Nov. 5 Payment for their account 54.^ 

Nov. 12 Payment for their account 

Dec. 24 Payment for their account 

Dec. 27 Remitted to them from Petach-Tikvah 

APPENDIX 11. 

Haifa. 

1917 Oct. 12 Remitted / 

Oct. 12 Remitted . 

Oct. 12 Remitted 

Dec. 14 Remitted from F 

APP 

Galil 

1917 Oct. 12 Remitted . . 
Oct. 29 Remitted . 



58 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

APPENDIX 13. 

Tiberias. 

1917 Oct. 12 Remitted Ltq.600.0000 

Oct. 29 Remitted 750.0000 

Ltq.1,350.0000 

APPENDIX 14. 
Saffed. 

1917 Nov. 11 Remitted Ltq.1,565.0000 

Nov. 18 Remitted 1,000.0000 

Ltq.2,565.0000 

APPENDIX 15. 

Greek Exiles in Hama (Syria). 

1917 Oct. 4 Remitted Ltq.350.0000 

Oct. 15 Remitted 175.0000 

Oct. 26 Paid in Jerusalem 4.0000 

Nov. 6 Remitted 37.5000 

Nov. 6 Remitted 175.0000 

Ltq.741.5000 

APPENDIX 16. 

General Expenses. 

Ltq.2.3550 

Stationery, Printing 69.1600 

41.9000 

18.3000 

Constantinople 41.7550 

60.0000 

111.6280 

Ltq.335.0980 
X 17. 

MMISSION. 

tted to various 

Ltq.107.3250 

89.5950 

Ltq. 196.9200 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 59 

APPENDIX 18. 

Sundry Debtors. 

Zionist Palestine Office Ltq.270.0000 

Sundry Individual Debtors 64.8000 



Ltq.334.8000 
APPENDIX 19. 
Stock in Hand. 

A small lot of Doorrha (low grade corn) Ltq.92.9500 

APPENDIX 20. 
Cash. 

The Cash Balance of Ltq.724-.3595 

has not been transferred to the 1918 Cash and has 
been handed over to the Zionist Commission. 

APPENDIX 21. 

Jerusalem. 

VIDE APPENDIX 5. 

APPENDIX 22. 

Individual Donations. 

An amount of Ltq.9.50 of Mr. Joseph Kamchi was sent to Jerusalem 
with the stipulation that if it could not be paid out to the payee it was 
to be used for the general poor. As it could not be paid out it was 
handed over to the Relief Administration. 

APPENDIX 23. 

Sundry Debtors. 

The Zionist Palestine Office £236.8420 



Egypt. Pounds 



APPENDIX 24. 

Jerusalem. 

VIDE APPENDIX 64. 



60 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

APPENDIX 25. 

The Jaffa Evacuation Committee. 

1918 

Jan. 1. Payment in Petach-Tikvah on Dec. 10, 1917, 

francs 1,022.5500 £39.4560 

Payment in Tiberias on Sept. 30, francs 22,730 . 877.5000 



£916.9560 



APPENDIX 26. 

Jaffa. 

1918 

Jan. 1. Payment in Petach-Tikvah on Oct. 23, 1917, to 

the Kfar-Saba Kitchen, francs 1,818.4000 £70.1450 

Payment in Jerusalem on Sept. 27, 1917, which 
had remained to the debit of the Jaffa Commit- 
tee with The Anglo-Palestine Co., Ltd., francs 
38,731 1,491.7500 

Payment of sundry amounts which had remained 
to the debit of the Jaffa Committee with The 
Anglo-Palestine Co., Ltd 1,575.1960 

Payment of francs 4,000 for the account of the 

Jaffa Committee to the Vaad Hakemach 176.2280 

Sundry payments to the Jaffa Committee in Pe- 
tach-Tikvah through the Zionist Provisional 
Office 539.2420 

One-quarter of the Passover Wheat Consign- 
ment 1,016.5000 

Jaffa part of the 50 Tons Food Consignment. . . 562.7570 

5,431.8180 
Paid back part of the Outlays for their account in 

1917 26.3040 

£5,405.5140 



APPENDIX 27. 
Judaean Colonies. 

Payment of sundry amounts which had remained to the deb- 
it of the Judaean Colonies Committee with the Anglo-Pal- 
estine Company £692.6460 

Pack back part of the outlays for their account 1917 26.3050 

£666.3410 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 61 

APPENDIX 28. 

1918. Hebron. 

Feb. 28, Remitted £60.0000 

Mar. 4, Remitted 100.0000 

" 21, Remitted 190.0000 

Apr. 21, Remitted 100.0000 

May 21, Remitted 100.0000 

" 24, Remitted 200.0000 

" 81, Remitted 5 tons of foodstuffs 200.0000 

£950.0000 
APPENDIX 29. 

General Expenses. 

Telegrams £29.6300 

Office Expenses, Postage, Stationery, Printing 0.8400 

Travelling Expenses 141.4950 

Sundry Expenses 45.0000 

Salaries 6.0000 



£222.4850 
APPENDIX 30. 

Interest and Commission. 

Commission on Remittances from Constantinople £50.0000 

Interest 624.3420 



£674.3420 
APPENDIX 31. 

Sundry Creditors. 

S. Hoofien (as representative of the British Palestine 

Fund) Ltq.12.7500 



£11.1900 
APPENDIX 32. 

The Zionist Commission. 

A Cash Balance of £121.0000 

which had remained in the hands of the Special Com- 
mittee's representative in Jerusalem from their remit- 
tances of £3,000 was handed over to the Zionist Com- 
mission. 

APPENDIX 38. 

Cash. 

A Cash Balance of £50.0000 

was reserved at the time of closing the accounts to de- 
fray out of the expenses of preparing and auditing the 
report and accounts, etc. This amount will be account- 
ed for to the Zionist Commission and the Balance will 
be handed over to it. 



62 



1917. 
Aug. 26. 

26. 

29. 
" 80. 

81. 



Sept. 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 

APPENDIX 84. 

Count de Ballobar. 

Received Ltq.2,000.0000 

1,000.0000 

800.0000 

600.0000 

400.0000 

Ltq.4,700.0000 



8. 


500.0000 


6. 


779.6000 


7. 


800.0000 


9. 


200.0000 


10. 


800.0000 


11. 


400.0000 


12. 


400.0000 


13. 


100.0000 


14. 


9.0000 


16. 


976.7000 







8,965.3000 
Ltq.8,665.3000 



1917. 

Sept. 14. 

16. 

23. 

24. 

" 27. 

" 30. 



Oct. 15. 
15. 
19. 
19. 
19. 
21. 
21. 
24. 
29. 
30. 
80. 
80. 



APPENDIX 85. 

Central Administration. 

Received Ltq.400.0000 

200.0000 

800.0000 

600.0000 

1,500.0000 

1,100.0000 



Paid for acct. of Jerusalem 



Ltq. 150.0000 

300.0000 

200.0000 

8.0000 

25.0000 

100.0000 

29.0000 

15.0000 

108.0000 

175.0000 

10.0000 

70.0000 



Ltq.4,000.0000 



Ltq. 1,1 85.0000 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



63 



Nov. 



Dec. 



5. 


Receive 


d 




Ltq.250.0000 


6. 


Paid fc 






400.0000 


8. 






200.0000 


9. 






700.0000 


9. 


r acct. 


of Jerusalem 


2.0000 


9. 


■I << ii 


ii ii 


1.0000 


9. 


ii ii ii 


•i •• 


1.0000 


9. 


n ii ii 


ii ii 


1.0000 


9. 


« ii ii 


ii ii 


1.0000 


9. 


•I ii ii 


ii i< 


80.0000 


16. 


Received . . . 




100.0000 


16. 


Paid fc 






150.0000 


16. 






20.0000 


16. 


r acct. 


of Jerusalem 


150.0000 


16. 


ii ii ii 


ii ii 


150.0000 


16. 


ii ii ii 


ii ii 


269.5000 


16. 


ii ii ii 


ii ii 


420.0000 


16. 


•I ii ii 


•i ii 


100.0000 


18. 


ii ii ii 


ii ii 


135.0000 


25. 


ii ii ii 


ii ii 


269.5000 


25. 


n ii ii 


ii ii 


5.6000 


25. 


ii ii ii 


ii ii 


400.0000 


25. 


ii ii ii 


•I ii 


30.0000 


25. 


ii ii ii 


ii ii 


100.0000 


25. 


•I ii ii 


ii ii 


15.0000 


25. 


ii ii ii 


ii ii 


50.0000 


25. 


ii ii ii 


ii ii 


11.0000 


25. 


Received . . . 




100.0000 


27. 


" 






150.0000 


30. 






200.0000 


30. 






271.0000 


30. 






367.2500 








Ltq.5,099.7500 


3. 


«. 




Ltq.229.0000 
273.0000 


3. 


Paid fc 






7. 


>r acct. 


of Jerusalem 


23.1250 


7. 


ii ii ii 


ii << 


2.0000 


17. 






200.0000 


27. 


Paid for acct. 


of Jerusalem 


3,247.5000 


27. 


" 


i ii 


" " 


200.0000 


27. 


" 


i ii 


•I ii 


200.0000 


27. 


" 


■ ii 


ii ii 


182.2500 


27. 


" 


i ii 


ii ii 


522.5000 


27. 


" 


i ii 


ii ii 


455.0000 


27. 


" 


i ii 


ii ii 


125.0000 


31. 


" 


i ii 


ii ii 


890.8500 


81. 






93.0000 

fi 1 -1.3 oo fi0 




UillOiAMt/U 



Ltq.16,427.9750 



64 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



Dec. 7. 



7. 



7. 



31. 



Paid back to the Central 
Administration or for its 
account 

Paid back to the Central 
Administration or for its 
account 

Paid back to the Central 
Administration or for its 
account 

Paid back to the Central 
Administration or for its 
account 

Paid back to the Central 
Administration or for its 
account 



Ltq.2.2500 



2.5000 



150.0000 



21.8750 



100.6620 









APPENDIX 36. 










General 


DlSTRIBUTION. 


1917 


Persons 


Piastres 




Aug. 


26. 


1205 


(J-) 


50 Ltq 


.602.5000 


" 


27. 


40 


(J.) 


20 


8.0000 


" 


27. 


108 


(J.) 


80 


30.9000 


" 


27. 


417 


(J.) 


40 


166.8000 


" 


27. 


308 


(R.D.) ... 


60 


184.8000 


■« 


27. 


144 


(T.H.R.D.) 


50 


72.0000 


" 


27. 


88 


(M.) .... 


50 


19.0000 


" 


27. 


209 


(T.H.&M.) 


50 


104.5000 


«4 


27. 


840 


(T.H.) ... 


50 


170.0000 


" 


27. 


9 


(T.H.) ... 


40 


3.6000 


" 


27. 


196 


(T.H.) ... 




160.1500 


" 


27. 


201 


(T.H.&M.) 




100.5000 


" 


28. 
28. 
28. 
28. 


470 

204 

40 

41 




40 
30 
20 
50 


188.0000 


« 




61.2000 


<« 




8.0000 


" 


(M.) .... 


20.5000 


" 


28. 


6 


(M.) .... 


100 


6.0000 


" 


28. 
29. 


83 

47 




40 
50 


13.2000 


- 


(M.) .... 


23.5000 


" 


29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
80. 


51 

195 

803 

4 

1 

9 

18 




20 
80 
40 
60 
80 
30 
50 


10.2000 


« 




58.5000 


>• 




121.2000 


» 




2.4000 


•< 




0.8000 


« 




2.7000 


" 


(M.) .... 


9.0000 


" 


80. 


8 

>evath. 


(M.) .... 

M.- 


100 

— Melamdim ( 
—Talmldey H 


8.0000 


J.~ 


-Jesht 


Talmud Tora 


R.D.- 


-Rabbis & Dayonlm. T.H.- 


ahamlm (Ta 



277.2870 



Ltq.16,150.6880 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



65 



1917 
Aug. 


Persons 
80. 2 
80. 85 

80. 257 

30. 613 

81. 618 

31. 170 
81. 32 
31. 95 
31. 2 
31. 9 
31. 3 
31. 33 
31. 1 
31. 10 
31. 5 
31. 4 
31. 3 

2. 557 
2. 219 
2. 4 
2. 6 
2. 113 

2. 46 

3. 525 
3. 193 
3. 29 

3. 22 

4. 528 
4. 163 
4. 69 

4. 2 

5. 16 
5. 537 
5. 268 
5. 2 

5. 10 

6. 588 
6. 393 
6. 126 
6. 14 
6. 2 

6. 4 

7. 196 
7. 164 
7. 47 
7. 22 
7. 75 
7. 12 
7. 4 








Piastres 
120 


Ltq.2.4000 

17.0000 

77.1000 

245.2000 

247.2000 

51.0000 

6.4000 

38.0000 

1.0000 

2.7000 

0.7500 

13.2000 

0.2500 

10.0000 

2.0000 

2.0000 

1.8000 

Ltq.222.8000 

65.7000 

2.0000 

2.0000 

52.1000 

9.2000 

210.0000 

57.9000 

5.8000 

10.5000 

131.2000 

48.9000 

11.8000 

0.5000 

3.2000 

214.8000 

80.4000 

1.0000 

6.0000 

235.2000 

117.9000 

25.2000 

7.0000 

0.8000 

2.4000 

78.4000 

49.2000 

9.4000 

11.0000 

80.0000 

3.6000 

0.8000 










20 




«« 








30 




<« 








40 




» 








40 




«« 








30 




« 








20 




>> 








40 




■• 








50 




«« 








30 




« 








25 




« 








40 




» 








25 




» 








. . 100 




« 








40 




«. 








50 




« 








60 




Sept. 








40 


Ltq.2,868.9500 








30 




•' 








50 




«« 








33 




** 


(T. 


H. 


) • 


20 




» 








40 




« 








30 




« 








20 




,, 


(T. 


H. 


) • 


50 
40 




« 








30 




« 








20 




« 








25 




" 








20 




» 








40 




« 








30 




>> 








50 




« 








60 




" 








40 




>> 








80 




" 








20 




>' 


(T. 
(T. 
(T. 


H 
H 
H 


) • 
) • 


50 
40 
60 
40 




" 








30 




» 








20 




ft 


(T, 

(T. 

(T 
(T 


,H 
H 
.H 
H 


■) • 
■) • 
•) • 
•) • 


50 
40 
80 
20 





66 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

1917 Persons Piastres 

Sept. 9. 602 40 Ltq.240.8000 

9. 221 80 66.0000 

9. 39 20 7.8000 

9. 9 100 9.0000 

10. 479 100 191.6000 

10. 199 30 59.7000 

10. 62 20 12.4000 

11. 288 40 115.2000 

11. 170 30 51.0000 

11. 44 20 8.8000 

"11. 5 (T.H.) ... 50 2.5000 

"11. 5 (T.H.) ... 40 2.0000 

12. 647 40 258.8000 

12. 223 30 66.9000 

12. 17 20 3.4000 

12. 7 10 0.7000 

12. 18 (T.H.) ... 50 9.0000 

13. 752 40 300.8000 

13. 267 30 80.1000 

13. 65 20 13.0000 

13. 2 50 1.0000 

13. 6 10 0.6000 

14. 527 40 210.8000 

" 14. 192 30 57.6000 

14. 54 20 10.8000 

Ltq.3,487.0000 

16. 627 40 270.8000 

16. 201 30 60.3000 

16. 9 20 1.8000 

16. 3 (M.) 50 1.5000 

16. 2 (Soldiers). 25 0.5000 

19. 584 40 233.6000 

19. 248 30 74.4000 

19. 45 20 9.0000 

19. 1 80 0.8000 

20. 672 40 268.8000 

20. 214 30 64.2000 

20. 16 20 3.4000 

20. 10 10 1.0000 

20. 4 (Soldiers). 25 1.0000 

20. 2 (Soldiers). 100 2.0000 

20. 1 (Soldiers). 200 2.0000 

20. 20 (T.H.) ... 50 10.0000 

" 20. 5 (T.H.) ... 40 2.0000 

20. 4 (T.H.) ... 100 4.0000 

21. 458 40 183.2000 

21. 266 30 79.8000 

21. 16 20 3.2000 



J. — Jesheevath. M. — Melamdim (Talmud Torah Teachers). 

R.D.— Rabbis & Dayonlm. T.H. — Talmldey Hahamlm (Talmudic Scholars). 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



67 



1917 Persons 




Piastres 






Sept. 21. 
21. 


18 




40 


Ltq.7.2000 

0.9000 

233.6000 

75.9000 

0.8000 

1.2000 

11.2000 

2.0000 

304.4000 

123.9000 

12.0000 

1.2000 

0.5000 

308.0000 

89.7000 

16.8000 

0.4000 

25.5000 




3 

584 

253 

4 

2 

28 

4 

761 

413 

60 

2 

1 

770 

299 

84 

4 

51 




30 
40 
30 
20 
60 
40 
50 
40 
30 
20 
60 
50 
40 
30 
20 
10 
50 




23. 






23. 






23. 






23. 






23. 






23. 






24. 






24. 






24. 






24. 






24. 






27. 






27. 






27. 






27. 






27. 


(T.H.) ... 




" 27. 


38 


(T.H.) . . . 


60 


22.8000 




27. 


4 


(T.H.) . . . 


30 


1.2000 




28. 


467 

132 

18 

194 




40 
30 
20 
50 


186.8000 

39.6000 

3.6000 

97.0000 




28. 






28. 






28. 


(T.H.) ... 




28. 


5 


(T.H.) . . . 


60 


3.0000 




" 28. 


2 


(T.H.) . . . 


30 


0.6000 




28. 


229 
77 
21 

694 




40 
30 
20 
50 


91.6000 

23.1000 

4.2000 

347.0000 




28. 






28. 






" 28. 


(T.H.) . . . 




28. 


14 


(T.H.) ... 


60 


8.4000 


Ltq.6,808.2000 


Oct. 2. 


522 

91 

261 

7 




20 
30 
40 
60 


104.4000 

27.3000 

104.4000 

4.2000 




2. 






2. 






2. 


(T.H.) .. 




2. 


125 


(T.H.) . . 


50 


62.5000 




2. 


5 


(T.H.) . . 


30 


1.5000 




3-4. 


117 


(R.D.) . . 


60 


70.2000 




4. 


299 


(R.D.) .. 


50 


149.5000 




4. 


200 


(T.T.&J.) 


50 


100.0000 




4. 


11 


(T.T.&J.). 


30 


3.3000 




4. 


27 


(T.T.&J.) 


35 


9.4500 




4. 


83 


(T.T.&J.) 


40 


33.2000 




4. 


73 


(T.T.&J.) 


45 


32.8500 




4. 


175 


(T.T.&J.) 


50 


87.5000 




4. 


5 


(T.T.&J.) 


55 


2.7500 




4. 


20 


(T.T.&J.) 


60 


12.0000 




4. 


20 


(T.T.&J.) 


75 


15.0000 




4. 


42 


(T.H.) .. 


70 


29.4000 





68 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



1917 
Oct. 



4. 

4. 

4. 

4. 

4. 
31. 
31. 
31. 
81. 



Persons 

2 (T.H.) 



25 

7 
1 
6 



Piastres 

130 

80 

100 

. 160 

50 



(T.H.) . 
(T.H.) . 
(T.H.) . 
(T.H.) . 
Various, as per separate list 

15 50 

1 120 

1 500 



13. 
14. 
14. 
14. 
15. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 



71 

15 

13 

19 

65 , 

20 , 

25 

1 , 

33 (T.H.) 

18 



40 
30 
20 
50 
40 
30 
20 
100 
50 
40 



Ltq.2. 
20, 

7. 

1. 

3 

104, 

7, 
1, 
5, 



6000 
0000 
0000 
6000 
0000 
5000 
5000 
2000 
0000 



ov. 5. 


74 

160 

190 

1 

1 

108 






30 
40 
20 
140 
60 
50 


22.2000 


5. 






64.0000 


5. 






88.0000 


5. 






1.4000 


5. 






0.6000 


5. 


(T. 


H.) .. 


54.0000 


6. 


182 


(T. 


H.) .. 


50 


91.0000 


6. 


5 


(T. 


H.) .. 


60 


3.0000 


6. 


154 

50 

168 

5 

183 

45 

23 

87 

3 






20 
30 

40 
50 
40 
30 
20 
50 
60 


30.8000 


6. 






15.0000 


6. 






67.2000 


6. 






2.5000 


7. 






73.2000 


7. 






13.5000 


7. 






4.6000 


7. 






43.5000 


7. 


(T. 


H.) .. 


1.8000 


8-9. 


110 


(T 


H.) .. 


50 


55.0000 


8-9. 


83 


(T.H.) .. 


50 


83.2000 


8-9. 


25 


(T 


H.) .. 


30 


7.5000 


8-9. 


14 


(T 


H.) .. 


20 


2.8000 


" 11-12. 


27 


(T.H.) .. 


50 


13.5000 


" 11-12. 


4 


(T 


H.) .. 


100 


4.0000 


" 11-12. 


5 


(T 


H.) .. 


30 


♦1.5000 


11-12. 


8 
45 
29 






50 
40 
30 


4.0000 


11-12. 






18.0000 


11-12. 






9.3000 











28 
4 
2 
9 

26 
6 
5 
1 

16 
7 



.4000 
.5000 
.6000 
.5000 
0000 
.0000 
0000 
0000 
5000 
2000 



Ltq.1,001.8500 



Ltq.675.1000 



J.- 

R.D.- 



-Jesheevath. 
-Rabbis & Dayonim. 



M.- 
T.H.- 



-Melamdim (Talmud Torah Teachers). 
-Talmidey Hahainim (Talmndic Scholars). 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



1917 
Nov. 



Dec. 



29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 

31. 
81. 



Persons 

12 

10 

Various (R.D.) 
4 (R.D.) . 

Various (T.H.) 
Various (T.H.) 



Piastres 
80 
35 

60 



Ltq.3.6000 

3.5000 

20.4000 

2.4000 

22.3500 
24.7000 



Ltq.8 11.7000 



47.0500 













Ltq.l 1,537.7500 






RECAPITULATION. 


According to the Amounts 


of the Individual Donations. 


Persons 
27 


i 




Ltq.2.7000 


2069 


20 
25 
30 






413.8000 


6 


1.5000 


6073 


1,821.9000 


14892 


40 


5,956.8000 


148 


50 

60 

80 
100 
120 
140 
500 
petty do 


74.0000 


22 


13.2000 


2 


1.6000 


10 


10.0000 


8 


3.6000 


1 


1.4000 


1 


5.0000 


6 






2.0000 


1205 


of Jeshe 






603.5000 


365 


Melamdi 






187.0000 


420 


Rabbis 8 






245.5000 


3896 


Talmidej 
Sundry . 


t Hahamim .... 




2.059.5500 


9 


[Donations (Soldiers) . . 


5.5000 




Sundry '. 






129.20 

1 1 S37 7fift0 




J. 1 ,U O 1 ■ t U \J\J 


29155 


Persons 


Ltq.l 1,537.7500 






APPENDIX 


37. 






Special 


Support. 


1917 


Perse 


>ns 






August 


22 


100 Piastres 


each 


Ltq.22.0000 




13 


200 


' 


" 


26.0000 




1 


220 


< 


" 


2.2000 




3 


300 


' 


" 


9.0000 




2 


400 


* 


" 


8.0000 




3 


500 


' 


" 


15.0000 




1 


800 


' 


" 


8.0000 




3 


1,000 


' 


" 


30.0000 




1 


1,200 


' 


" 


12.0000 




2 


2,000 


" 


40.0000 












Ltq.l 72.2000 



70 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



1917 Persons 



September 


1 


40 Piastres each 


Ltq.0.4000 






42 


25 


10.5000 






3 


50 


1.5000 






18 


100 


18.0000 






5 


150 


7.5000 






18 


200 


26.0000 






1 


250 


2.5000 






5 


300 


15.0000 






1 


320 


8.2000 






1 


400 


4.0000 






1 


800 


8.0000 






1 


550 


5.5000 






2 


2,000 


40.0000 


Ltq.142.1000 


October 


1 


25 


0.2500 






1 


50 


0.5000 






10 


100 


10.0000 






3 


150 


4.5000 






10 


200 


20.0000 






7 


300 


21.0000 






1 


400 


4.0000 






1 


420 


4.2000 






2 


1,000 


20.0000 






1 


2,000 


20.0000 






1 


2,500 


25.0000 






1 


2,900 


29.0000 


158.4500 


November 


1 


40 


0.4000 




295 


25 


73.7500 






92 


50 


46.0000 






64 


75 


48.0000 






45 


100 


45.0000 






1 


150 


1.5000 






49 


200 


98.0000 






10 


300 


30.0000 






4 


400 


16.0000 






2 


500 


10.0000 






3 


600 


18.0000 






2 


1,000 


20.0000 






1 


550 


5.5000 






1 


2,000 


20.0000 






1 


13,500 


135.0000 






2 


900 


18.0000 


585.1500 


December 


70 


25 


17.5000 




703 


50 


351.5000 






2 


40 


0.8000 






3 


60 


1.8000 






54 


75 


40.5000 






2 


80 


1.6000 





American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



71 



1917 Persons 

December 



313 


100 Piastres 


2 


112 


92 


150 


1 


160 


2 


175 


87 


200 


58 


300 


8 


225 


6 


250 


2 


275 


1 


350 


1 


375 


19 


400 


33 


500 


13 


600 


1 


700 


1 


412 


2 


337 


1 


262 


1 

1 
2 


5,000 
1,800 
1,000 


1 
1 


1,500 
800 


2 


900 


8 


1,000 


1 


1,100 


2 

1 


1,200 
1,500 



each 



Ltq.3 13.0000 

2.2400 

188.0000 

1.6000 

3.5000 

174.0000 

174.0000 

18.0000 

15.0000 

5.5000 

3.5000 

3.7500 

76.0000 

165.0000 

78.0000 

7.0000 

4.1200 

6.7400 

2.6200 

50.0000 

18.0000 

20.0000 

15.0000 

8.0000 

18.0000 

80.0000 

11.0000 

24.0000 

15.0000 



1,864.2700 



2254 Persons Ltq.2,922.1700 

See Recapitulation herewith enclosed! 



408 Persons 25 


4 


40 


799 


50 


3 


60 


118 


75 


2 


80 


408 


100 


2 


112 


101 


150 


1 


160 


2 


175 


172 


200 


8 


225 



RECAPITULATION. 

Piastres each Ltq. 102.0000 

1.6000 

399.5000 

1.8000 

88.5000 

1.6000 

408.0000 

2.2400 

151.5000 

1.6000 

3.5000 

344.0000 

18.0000 



72 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



1 Persons 220 Piastres ea 


7 


250 




2 


275 




1 


262 




88 


800 




1 


850 




2 


837 




1 


820 




1 


875 




26 


400 




1 


400 




1 


412 




1 


420 




88 


500 




2 


550 




16 


600 




1 


700 




8 


800 




4 


900 




17 


1,000 




1 


1,100 




8 


1,200 




2 


1,500 




6 


2,000 




1 


2,500 




1 


2,900 




1 


5,000 




1 


18,500 




1 


1,800 


2254 




Less: Sur 


idry donations trar 


isferred 



eh 



Ltq.2.2000 

17.5000 

5.5000 

2.6200 

249.0000 

3.5000 

6.7400 

8.2000 

8.7500 

104.0000 

4.0000 

4.1200 

4.2000 

190.0000 

11.0000 

96.0000 

7.0000 

24.0000 

86.0000 

170.0000 

11.0000 

36.0000 

30.0000 

120.0000 

25.0000 

29.0000 

50.0000 

135.0000 

18.0000 



Ltq.2,922.1700 
30.2500 



1917. 
Oct. 



Nov. 
Dec. 



APPENDIX 38. 
Support of Charitable Institutions. 

4. Blumenfeld Orphanage Ltq.38.4000 

81. Blumenfeld Orphanage 70.0000 



Ltq.2,891.9200 



8. Weingarten Orphanage Ltq.50.0000 

30. Old Aged Home 10.0000 



20. Old Aged Home Ltq.50.0000 

20. Blumenthal Orphanage 25.0000 



31. Yemenite Talmud Torah Or- 
phanage Ltq.20.0000 

81. Lunatic Asylum 80.0000 



Ltq.108.4000 



60.0000 



75.0000 



100.0000 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 73 

Dec. 31. Milk and Bread Distribution 
and Women's Workshop of 
the Jewish Women's Union Ltq.208.0000 



208.0000 



Ltq.55 1.4000 
APPENDIX 39. 

Talmud Torah Teachers and Talmudic Scholars — Jerusalem. 
Receipts and Expenditures of the Special Department in 1917. 

Receipts. 

Received from the Amsterdam Administration "Pekidim 

and Amarkalim of the Holy Land" Ltq.465.000 

Received from the Palestine Zionist Office 112.500 

Repayment from the Talmud-Torah "Etz-Chaim".... 5.250 

Received from Jerusalem American Relief Committee. . 3,766.500 



Ltq.4,349.250 



Expenditures. 

I. Talmud Torah Teachers. 

1917. 

October 28: 

Talmud Torah Etz-Chaim Ltq.352.500 

Talmud Torah Mea-Shearim 104.000 

Talmud-Torah Haye-Olam 77.000 

Talmud Torah Har-Zion 167.000 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 12.000 

November 1 1 : 

Talmud Torah Etz-Chaim Ltq. 182.750 

Talmud Torah Mea-Shearim 52.000 

Talmud Torah Haye-Olam 38.500 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 6.000 

November 22: 

Talmud Torah Etz-Chaim Ltq. 190.250 

Talmud Torah Mea-Shearim 64.000 

Talmud Torah Haye-Olam 54.500 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 6.000 

November 28: 

Talmud Torah Etz-Chaim Ltq. 192.000 

Talmud Torah Mea-Shearim 58.000 

Talmud Torah Haye-Olam 42.500 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 6.000 



Ltq.712.500 



279.250 



814.750 



298.500 



74 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

December 13: 

Talmud Torah Etz-Chaim Ltq. 18 1.750 

Talmud Torah Mea-Shearim 56.500 

Talmud Torah Haye-Olam 42.500 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 6.000 

Ltq.286.750 

December 20: 

Talmud Torah Etz-Chaim Ltq.227.200 

Talmud Torah Mea-Shearim 70.375 

Talmud Torah Haye-Olam 54.375 

Talmud Torah Har Zion 39.375 

Talmud Torah Doresh Zion 37.500 

Talmud Torah Yemenites 28.125 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 7.500 

464.450 

December 30: 

Talmud Torah Etz-Chaim Ltq.274.875 

Talmud Torah Mea-Shearim 84.250 

Talmud Torah Haye-Olam 66.750 

Talmud Torah Har Zion 47.250 

Talmud Torah Doresh Zion 45.000 

Talmud Torah Yemenites 33.750 

Talmud Torah Hungarians 48.300 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 9.000 

609.175 



Ltq.2,965.875 

II. Talmudic Scholars. 

November 28 Ltq.30.000 

December 6 30.000 

December 30 131.000 

191.000 



III. Yesheevath and Sundry Rabbis. 



December 31 



Yesheevath Etz-Chaim Ltq. 136.500 

Yesheevath Mea-Shearim 202.750 

Yesheevath Torah-Haim 100.750 

Yesheevath Haye-Olam 126.750 

Yesheevath Or-Hachadash 24.500 

Yesheevath Hungarians 95.000 



686.250 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 75 

November 28: 

Rabbi Bravermann for distribution of 

bread for the Yesheevath Ltq.400.000 

Rabbi Bravermann for distribution of 

bread for the Yesheevath 45.500 

Rabbi Bravermann for distribution of 

bread for the Yesheevath 3.500 

449.000 

Total Ltq.4,291.625 

Balance on December 31st, 1917 in the 

hands of the Sub-Committee 57.6250 

Ltq.4,349.250 
Spent for account of the Jerusalem Relief 

Committee Ltq.3,766.500 

Spent independently by the Amsterdam 

Administration 300.000 

Ltq.4,066.500 
APPENDIX 40. 

Greek Exiles in Hama. 
1917. 
August. Support in Jerusalem: 

273 Persons at Ltq.2.00 Ltq.546.00 

8 Persons at 2.50 20.00 

11 Persons at 3.00 33.00 

Ltq.599.00 

Sundry Remittances to Hama 375.00 

Ltq.974.00 
APPENDIX 41. 

American Exiles and Their Families. 

Apart from the support detailed in the Appendices No. 

58 and 77 an amount of Ltq.9.00 

was paid for casual support at the time of the ex- 
pulsion, 

An amount of 45.00 

was handed over to one of the expelled notables who left 
together with the Americans to be used for their benefit, 

And an amount of 1.85 

was paid to porters who handled the expellers' luggage. 

Ltq.55.05 



76 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 







APPENDIX 42. 










Medical Help. 






1917. 














Aug. 


29. 
31. 
31. 
31. 
31. 
31. 








Ltq.25.00 
50.00 
25.00 
124.00 
25.00 
25.00 

Lt 




" 


.. 








" 


.. 








it 


.. 








« 


.. 
















q.274.00 


Sept. 


2. 

6. 
12. 
13. 
24. 
28. 
80. 


ti 4* 






Ltq.61.00 
65.25 
10.00 
10.00 
50.00 
30.00 
25.00 




a 


., 








u 


.i 








" 


.. 








- 


,. 








>• 


.. 
















251.25 


Oct. 


4. 


H 4€ 






Ltq. 100.00 


St 


4. 


t* i$ 






775.00 












875.00 


Nov. 


11. 


Subvention to the 


Medical 


Help 














Ltq.80.00 




<< 


16. 


Subvention to the 


Medical 


Help 


420.00 




<< 


16. 


Subvention to the 


Medical 


Help 


100.00 






20. 


Subvention to the 


Medical 


Help 


100.00 


700.00 


Dec. 


20. 


Subvention to the 


Medical 


Help 














Ltq.350.00 






24. 


Subvention to the 


Medical 


Help 


250.00 






81. 


Subvention to the 


Medical 


Help 


150.00 




" 


31. 






90.00 
















840.00 








Ltq. 


2,940.25 



1917. 




Oct. 


81 


Dec. 


25 


" 


31 


" 


81 


" 


31 



APPENDIX 43. 
Loans to Institutions. 

Girls' Work Shop Ltq.15.00 



Girls' Work Shop. . . . 
Bukharian Community 

Lunatic Asylum 

Sophrim Society 



15.00 

50.00 

150.00 

90.00 



Ltq.15.00 



805,00 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



77 



1917. 

Nov. 16. Blumenthal Orphanage, 

'* 25. 

" SO. 

Dec. 7. 

" 25. 

" 31. 

Nov. 80. Weingarten Orphanage, 

" 20. " "-''.. 

** 30. 



" 30. Old Aged Home, 
Dec. 25. 



20. Bikkur Cholim Hospital. 
31. 



Ltq.20.00 
15.00 
21.00 
90.00 
25.00 
30.00 



55.00 
50.00 
30.00 



Ltq.201.00 



50.00 
150.00 



50.00 
100.00 



185.00 



200.00 



150.00 



Oct. 31. 
31. 
31. 
31. 
31. 
31. 



Nov. 



Dec. 



6. 
13. 
13. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 

2. 

2. 

7. 
25. 
25. 
25. 
25. 
25. 



APPENDIX 44. 
Loans to Individuals. 



Ltq. 1,006.00 



A private loan, 



Ltq. 10.00 
10.00 
2.00 
10.00 
40.00 
10.00 

5.00 

5.00 

10.00 

10.00 

8.00 

5.00 

5.00 

10.00 

5.00 

10.00 

10.00 

100.00 

5.00 

5.00 

3.00 

3.00 

30.00 

10.00 

10.00 

10.00 



Ltq.82.00 



178.00 



78 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



1917. 
Dec. 



25. A private loan Ltq.10.00 

25. " " 10.00 

31. " " 15.00 

31. " " 10.00 

31. " " 20.00 

31. " " 10.00 

31. " " 15.00 

31. " 10.00 

31. " 10.00 

31. " " 10.00 

31. " " 5.00 

31. " " 12.00 

31. " " 15.00 

31. " " 12.00 

31. " " 30.00 



270.00 



APPENDIX 45. 



Ltq.530.00 



Sundry Expenses. 

Repairs Ltq.6.050 

Carriages 4.250 

Porters 21.650 

Sundries 101.780 



Ltq.133.730 



APPENDIX 46. 



Office Expenses. 

Rent Ltq.174.000 

Stationery and Printing 154.055 

Sundries 79.500 



APPENDIX 47. 
Count de Ballobar. 



1917. 






Aug. 


6. 


Received 


" 


10. 




" 


19. 




" 


20. 




" 


24. 




" 


24. 




" 


29. 




" 


31. 





I.tq.350.000 
300.000 
65.000 
150.000 
150.000 
8.625 
200.000 
150.000 



Ltq.407.555 



Ltq. 1,373.625 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 79 

1917. 

Sept. 3. Received Ltq.150.000 

7. " 100.000 

12. *' 150.000 

14. " 150.000 

21. " 150.000 

24. " 150.000 

25. " 200.000 

28. " 100.000 



Ltq.l, 150.000 

Oct. 5. " 175.000 



Ltq.2,698.625 
APPENDIX 48. 

The Central Administration. 

Ltq.Gold Ltq.Gold 

Oct. 10. Received 171.320 

25. " 100.000 

25. " 150.000 

25. " 250.000 

29. " 300.000 

971.320 

Nov. 4. " 100.000 

4. " 50.000 

6. " 300.000 

11. " 200.000 

" 12. Paid for account Jerusalem 50.000 

12. " " " " 12.000 

13. Received 300.000 

15. " 130.000 

15. " 85.000 

16. " 300.000 

19. " 250.000 

20. " 250.000 

" 25. Paid for account Jerusalem 50.000 

"25. " " " " 2.000 

25. " " " " 20.000 

26. Received 200.000 

26. " 10.000 

" 30. Paid for account Jerusalem 24.000 

2,333.000 

Dec. 3. " " " " 24.000 

3. " " " " 70.000 

3. Received 450.000 

3. Paid for account Jerusalem 24.000 

3. Received 535.000 

20. " 400.000 

20. " 4.500 

20. " 400.000 



80 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

1917. Ltq.Gold Ltq.Gold 

Dec. 20. Paid for account Jerusalem 106.000 

20. . " " " " 2.010 

2,015.510 

5,319.830 
Paid back to the Central Adminis- 
tration or paid for its account: 

Nov. 13 1.313 

Dec. 31 53.040 

31 87.080 

31 92.960 

234.398 

Ltq.Gold5,085.437 
APPENDIX 49. 

The Jerusalem Wheat Syndicate, Jerusalem. 

In the month of August the Advisory Committee had 
paid into the semi-official Jerusalem Wheat Syndi- 
cate the amount of Ltq.Gold222.095 

This was in addition to a previous investment of. . 150.000 

which appears from the previous Committee's 
accounts. 

Ltq.Gold372.095 
The total amount has been received back from the Jerusalem Wheat 
Syndicate at the winding up of its business. 



APPENDIX 50. 

Loans. 

Received back from Moshav Sekenim Ltq.Goldl2.626 

APPENDIX 51. 

Creditors 1917. 

Mr. S. Schocher Ltq.Gold98.12 

Millers : 

Berman Bros 257.42 

Spitzer 121.60 

Frenkel 86.07 

Ltq.Gold563.21 



American Fundi for Jewish War Sufferers 81 

APPENDIX 52. 
Food Distribution to Schools. 



1917. 

August : 



Rotels 
Name of School 



Hebrew Teachers' Seminary 

" Boys' School 

" Girls' School 

" Kindergarten A 

" Kindergarten B . , 

Alliance Israelite School 

Evalina de Rothschild Girls' School. . 

Tachkemoni School 

Hilfsverein Boys' School 

" Girls' School 

Kindergarten B 

Kindergarten C 

Rothschild School (Hilfsverein Adm.) 

Talmud Torah Etz-Chaim 

" " Mea-Shearim 

" of the Sephardim . . . 
" " of the Moroccans .... 

" " of the Yemenites .... 

" in Silouan 

of the Georgians . . . . 
" Yesheevath Zion 

Haye Olam 

" " Doresh Zion 

" of the Allepoans . . . . 
" " of the Bukharians . . . 

Nachlath-Zion 

" Cassutto 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 

" Jona Mann 

Bravermann 

Heder-Torah 

" Dirdak 

" Weintraub 

" Grossmann 

" Garfinkel 

Sophrim School 

Bezalel 

Women's Workshop Beth-Melacha . 

" Schoechannah . . 

Various Distributions 



of Bread 


Ltq.Gold 


80.00 


6.257 


236.41 


18.511 


480.00 


37.575 


160.00 


12.505 


117.25 


9.159 


240.00 


38.160 


100.00 


15.801 


160.00 


12.585 


320.00 


25.390 


870.07 


29.156 


256.00 


16.187 


205.50 


20.168 


308.00 


24.442 


558.96 


87.675 


176.00 


27.728 


408.00 


32.148 


28.34 


4.386 


92.00 


15.108 


14.15 


2.232 


137.34 


9.801 


97.81 


13.692 


102.00 


15.776 


68.00 


10.263 


93.00 


7.272 


200.00 


15.641 


75.00 


5.904 


28.35 


4.466 


28.34 


3.070 


132.67 


10.450 


13.75 


1.078 


192.00 


15.126 


33.24 


3.537 


43.00 


3.371 


22.32 


1.730 


11.93 


0.938 


12.17 


2.150 


14.68 


1.150 


137.67 


7.563 


82.00 


6.333 


133.79 


33.261 



5,969.74 607.605 



82 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

1917. 
September : 

Name of School 

Hebrew Teachers' Seminary 

" Boys' School 

Girls' School 

Kindergarten A 

" Kindergarten B 

Alliance Israelite School 

Evalina de Rothschild Girls' School 

Tachkemoni School 

Hilfsverein Boys' School 

Girls' School 

Kindergarten B 

Kindergarten C 

Rothschild School Hifsverein Adm 

Talmud Torah Etz Chaim 

Mea Shearim 

of the Sephardim 

of the Moroccans 

of the Yemenites 

in Silouan 

Suckath-Schalom 

of the Georgians 

Yesheevath-Zion 

Yesheevath Haye Olam 

Doresh Zion 

Talmud Torah of the Allepoans 

" of the Bukharians 

" Nachlath-Zion 

" Cassutto 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 

Jona Mann , 

Bravermann 

Heder Torah 

" Dirdak 

Weintraub 

" Grossmann 

" Garfinkel 

Sophrim School 

Bezalel 

Women's Workshop Beth-Melacha 

Schoschannah 

Wool Workshop Matwe 

Various Distributions 



Rotels 
of Bread 


Ltq.Gold 


75.00 


6.750 


218.34 


18.330 


451.29 


40.617 


105.00 


9.450 


135.00 


12.150 


375.00 


33.750 


131.25 


11.813 


105.00 


9.450 


323.00 


29.070 


348.25 


28.980 


240.00 


21.600 


202.50 


18.225 


280.00 


25.200 


1,000.00 


90.000 


286.00 


25.740 


360.00 


32.400 


35.02 


3.150 


119.92 


10.793 


16.64 


1.498 


108.33 


9.750 


140.92 


12.685 


120.00 


10.800 


106.75 


9.516 


89.92 


7.020 


248.00 


22.320 


78.00 


8.093 


33.34 


3.000 


33.35 


3.001 


81.62 


7.346 


38.75 


3.488 


180.00 


16.200 


63.01 


5.670 


57.12 


5.140 


26.13 


2.352 


12.48 


1.123 


33.37 


3.003 


12,09 


1.089 


63.00 


5.670 


53.33 


4.800 




10.000 


336.43 


36.665 


6,722.15 


617.697 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



83 



1917. 
October : 

Name of School 

Hebrew Teachers' Seminary 

Boys' School 

Girls' School 

Kindergarten A 

Kindergarten B 

Alliance Israelite School 

Evelina de Rothschild School 

Tachkemoni School 

Hilfsverein Boys' School 

Girls' School 

Kindergarten B 

Kindergarten C 

Rothschild Hilfsverein Admin 

Talmud-Torah Etz-Chaim 

" Mea Shearim 

of the Sephardim . . 
" of the Moroccans . . 
" of the Yemenites . . . 

in Silouan 

of the Georgians . . 
Yesheevath-Zion . . 

" Haye Olam 

Doresh Zion 

" of the Allepoans . . 
of the Bukharians . 
Nachlath-Zion 

" Cassutto 

Yesheevath-Bachoorim 

Jona Mann 

Bravermann 

Heder-Torah 

" Dirdak 

" Weintraub 

" Grossmann 

" Garfinkel 

Sophrim-Society 

Bezalel 

Women's Workshop Beth-Melacha 

Schoschannah 

Various Donations in food 



Rotels 
of Bread 


Ltq.Gold 


67.50 


6.642 


200.30 


21.153 


420.00 


41.328 


160.00 


13.973 


142.33 


15.744 


420.00 


41.328 


193.75 


19.065 


160.00 


15.744 


329.42 


22.575 


330.00 


35.055 


216.00 


21.254 


178.25 


17.540 


230.00 


22.632 


669.97 


65.926 


335.75 


33.038 


324.00 


31.882 


556.34 


5.544 


169.62 


16.691 


31.84 


3.133 


76.00 


1.478 


116.76 


11.489 


198.12 


19.532 


119.00 


11.709 


84.00 


8.265 


192.00 


18.893 


60.00 


5.904 


55.01 


5.412 


55.01 


5.412 


134.75 


13.260 


44.30 


4.359 


164.25 


16.162 


47.25 


4.649 


66.29 


6.529 


28.75 


2.829 


12.10 


1.191 


15.00 


1.476 


21.58 


2.123 


117.00 


11.513 


60.08 


5.904 


310.30 


32.335 



6,512.62 



646.671 



84 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

1917. 
November: 

Hotels 

Name of School of Bread Ltq.Gold 

Hebrew Teachers' Seminary 144.00 14.871 

Boys' School 394.34 40.530 

Girls' School 753.17 75.166 

Kindergarten A 304.79 30.418 

Kindergarten B 217.25 21.681 

Alliance Israelite School 554.75 55.344 

Evelina de Rothschild Girls' School 218.75 21.831 

Tachkemoni School 75.25 23.478 

Hilfsverein Boys' School 451.80 45.089 

Girls' School 342.75 34.206 

Kindergarten B 389.28 38.850 

Kindergarten C 314.00' 31.337 

Rothschild School Hilfsv. Adm 369.32 36.858 

Talmud Torah Eta-Chaim 1,376.61 137.385 

Mea Shearim 386.50 38.572 

of the Sephardim 491.00 49.000 

of the Moroccans 70.15 7.000 

of the Yemenites 208.75 20.833 

in Silouan 34.37 3.430 

of Suckath-Shalom 52.50 5.210 

of the Georgians , 178.75 17.839 

Yesheevath Zion 169.38 16.904 

Haye Olam 225.50 22.504 

Doresh-Zion 34.00 3.393 

of the Allepoans 150.50 15.019 

of the Bukharians 350.50 34.980 

Nachlath-Zion 190.00 18.962 

of the Persians 12.50 1.247 

of the Hungarians 29.75 2.969 

Cassutto 67.82 6.768 

Yesheevath-Bachoorim 170.00 16.966 

Jona Mann 35.17 3.510 

Bravermann 68.49 6.836 

Heder Torah 201.08 20.067 

Dirdak 123.37 12.312 

Weintraub 70.58 7.044 

Grossmann 42.87 4.278 

Garfinkel 15.25 1.522 

Rabinovitz 26.43 2.637 

Arab 23.00 2.195 

Silbermann 12.70 1.267 

Benot-Israel 420.62 41.978 

Girls' Shaare Hessed 16.25 1.621 

Sophrim School 37.35 3.727 

Bezalel 72.25 7.210 

Women's Workshop Kadeema 100.75 10.055 

Beth-Melacha 123.23 12.290 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



85 



Name of School 
Women's Workshop Schoschanna 

Wool Work Shop Matwe 

Various Distributions 



Rotels 
of Bread 


Ltq.Gold 


203.54 


26.301 


189.00 


18.862 


539.84 


53.928 



11,049.80 1,125.820 



December : 
1917. 

Hebrew Teachers' Seminary 165.00 18.387 

Boys' School 266.00 29.643 

Girls' School 569.75 63.493 

Kindergarten A 307.31 34.246 

Kindergarten B 204.60 22.800 

Kindergarten Shaare Hessed 12.25 1.365 

Alliance Israelite Schools 554.00 50.725 

Evelina de Rothschild School 186.75 20.811 

Tachkemoni School 297.39 15.311 

Hilfsverein Boys' School 385.25 42.932 

Girls' School 405.33 45.170 

Kindergarten B 260.93 27.915 

Kindergarten C 250.50 29.078 

Rothschild School Hilfsv. Adm 271.83 30.293 

Talmud Torah Etz Chaim 1,048.95 116.895 

Mea Shearim 408.00 45.467 

of the Sephardim 273.00 30.432 

of the Moroccans 58.32 6.500 

of the Yemenites 206.68 23.032 

in Silouan 21.32 2.375 

Suckath-Shalom 39.37 4.387 

of the Georgians 131.25 14.626 

Yesheevath Zion 137.95 15.374 

Haye Olam 184.75 20.588 

Doresh Zion 110.50 15.601 

of the Allepoans 187.23 20.865 

of the Bukharians 294.00 32.763 

Nachlath-Zion 140.00 12.314 

of the Persians 56.04 6.245 

of the Hungarians 119.00 13.261 

Cassutto 56.00 6.240 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 35.00 3.900 

Jona Mann 127.30 14.186 

" Bravermann 40.79 4.545 

Heder Torah 170.58 19.000 

Dirdak 81.50 9.082 

Weintraub 77.50 8.636 

Grossman 59.50 6.630 

Garfinkel 12.88 1.435 

Rabinowitz 49.20 5.483 

Arab 58.69 6.540 



86 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



1917. 

December : 

Name of School 

Heder Silbermann 

Benoth Israel 

Shaare Hessed (Girls) . . 

Sophrim School 

Bezalel 

Women's Workshop Kadeema . . . 
Beth-Melacha 
Schoschannah 

Wool Work Shop Matwe 

Various Distributions 



of Bread 


Ltq.Gold 


23.75 


2.617 


426.25 


47.500 


38.75 


4.318 


27.75 


3.092 


60.00 


6.686 


157.83 


17.584 


133.99 


14.933 


175.20 


12.834 


156.61 


17.453 


502.34. 


52.938 


10,024.69 


1,078.536 



GENERAL RECAPITULATION. 

1917 Quantity of 

tv/t ,i Bread Distributed Value in 

Montn in Rotels Ltq.Gold 

August 5,969.74 607.695 

September 6,722.15 617.697 

October 6,512.62 646.671 

November 11,049.80 1,125.820 

December 10,024.59 1,078.536 

Total 40,278.90 4,076.419 



APPENDIX 53. 

Food Distrbution to Charitable Institutions. 

1917. 

* t. Quantity 

August: of Bread Value 

Name of Institution Rotels Ltq. Ltq. 

Blumenthal Orphanage 116.64 9.277 

Blinds' Home 208.00 16.734 

Sephardic Old Aged Home 95.38 7.503 

United Old Aged Home 631.33 49.766 

Sephardic Orphanage 110.88 8.642 

Weingartens' Girls' Orphanage. . 365.83 30.813 

Ophtalmic Hospital Lemaan Zion 41.25 3.210 

Lunatic Asylum 431.40 25.870 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 41.25 3.210 

2,041.96 155.025 155.025 
September : 

Blumenthal Orphanage 124.87 11.194 

Blinds' Home 136.50 12.285 

Sephardic Old Aged Home 98.16 9.835 

United Old Aged Home 606.34 54.575 

Sephardic Orphanage 73.50 6.615 

Weingartens' Girls' Orphanage.. 363.13 32.682 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



87 



Quantity 
Name of Institution 
Opht. Hospital Lemaan Zion. . 
Bikkur Cholim Hospital .... 

Lunatic Asylum 

Diskins Orphanage 

October : 

Blumenthal Orphanage 

Blinds' Home 

Sephardic Old Aged Home .... 

United Old Aged Home 

Sephardic Orphanage 

Weingartens' Girls' Orphanage 
Opht. Hospital Lemaan Zion. . 
Bikkur Cholim Hospital .... 

Lunatic Asylum 

Diskins Orphanage 

November: 

Blumenthal Orphanage 

Blinds' Home 

Sephardic Old Aged Home . . . 

United Old Aged Home 

Sephardic Orphanage 

Weingartens' Girls' Orphanage 

Ophtalmic Hospital 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital .... 

Lunatic Asylum 

Diskins Orphanage 

December : 

Blumenthal Orphanage 

Blinds' Home 

Sephardic Old Aged Home . . 

United Old Aged Home 

Sephardic Orphanage 

Weingartens' Orphanage .... 
Bikkur Cholim Hospital .... 

Lunatic Asylum 

Diskins Orphanage 

Shaare Zedek Hospital 



For Melamdei Hamossad (Sundries) 



of Bread 
Hotels 


Value 
Ltq. Ltq. 


82.50 


7.422 


123.25 


11.135 


232.40 


20.910 


371.25 


33.400 


2,211.40 


199.053 199.053 


159.38 


15.723 


253.50 


38.376 


69.50 


6.839 


794.33 


78.162 


98.25 


9.668 


440.83 


43.382 


82.50 


8.118 


30.62 


18.265 


226.87 


22.325 


536.25 


52.767 


2,692.03 


293.625 293.625 


581.48 


67.096 


164.25 


16.392 


122.34 


12.209 


696.36 


69.524 


130.25 


13.000 


448.63 


44.773 


82.50 


8.174 


288.75 


28.610 


374.68 


37.125 


970.75 


96.185 


3,859.99 


393.088 393.088 


433.92 


48.356 


268.00 


29.866 


126.32 


14.077 


1,079.66 


120.317 


98.00 


10.921 


456.74 


50.899 


123.75 


13.816 


123.75 


13.816 


536.25 


59.872 


1,213.63 


78.944 


4,460.02 


440.884 440.884 


) 


9.064 



1,490.739 



ss 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 
RECAPITULATION. 



Name of Institution 

Blumenthals Orphanage 

Blinds' Home 

Sephardic Old Aged Home 

United Old Aged Home 

Sephardic Orphanage 

Weingartens' Girls' Orphanage . . 
Ophtalmic Hospital Lemaan Zion 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 

Lunatic Asylum 

Diskin's Orphanage 

Shaare-Zedek Hospital 

Sundries 

Total 



uantity of food 
in Rotels 






1,415.79 


Ltq. 15 1.646 


1,030.25 




113.653 


511.70 




49.463 


3,808.29 




372.344 


510.88 




48.846 


2,075.16 




202.549 


288.75 




26.924 


763.12 




75.036 


1,389.10 




120.046 


2,414.50 




242.224 


1,213.63 




78.944 




Ltq. 


9.064 


15,421.17 


1,490.739 



1917. 

August 

September 

October 

November 

December 



APPENDIX 54. 

Food Distributions to Orphans. 

1,735.32 Rotels of Bread Ltq.Gold273.353 

3,470.93 " " " 812.384 

2,940.40 " " " 289.364 

8,718.46 ." " " 871.102 

2,983.74 " " " 328.413 

14,848.85 Ltq.Goldl,574.616 



1917. 




October 


570.25 


November 


1,036.25 


December 


208.42 



1,814.72 



APPENDIX 55. 
Food Distributions to Prisoners. 



Rotels of Bread Ltq.Gold56.683 

" 103.393 

" 23.226 

Ltq.Goldl 83.307 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



89 



APPENDIX 56. 

Food Distribution to Talmud Torah Teachers and Talmudic 

Scholars. 

Talmud Torah Etz Chaim Ltq.87.5 

Talmud Torah Mea Shearim 27.3 

Talmud Torah Haye Olam 20.3 

Talmud Torah Har Zion . 15.7 

Talmud Torah Doresh Zion 16.0 

Talmud Torah Yemenites 11.0 

Talmud Torah Hungarians 30.0 

Various Yesheevaths 450.0 

Rabbis and Scholars 65.0 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 2.6 

Yesheevath Hungaria 55.0 



Ltq.Goldl25.753 



Ltq.780.4 



1917. 

Nov. 
it 


20. 
29. 
29. 

24. 
24. 
31. 


APPENDIX 57. 
Special Support. 


old2.000 
0.200 
0.565 

0.500 
1.000 
1.000 




n 


„ 




Ltq.Gold2.765 


Dec. 


<< « «> 




€t 


n i* <t 






« 


„ 




2.500 












- 






Ltq.Gold5.265 



APPENDIX 58. 
American Exiles and Their Families. 



Support of the families expelled in December 1917: 

A Family of 1 Person Ltq.Goldl.50 

" l " 1.50 

" 4 " 8.00 

" l " 1.50 

" 1 " 1.50 

" 1 " 1.50 

" 1 " 1.50 

" 4 " 8.00 

" 4 " 4.00 

" 1 " 1.50 

" 1 " 1.50 

" 2 " 8.00 

" l " 1.50 



90 



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A Family of 2 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
4 
10 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
3 
1 
1 
2 
5 
9 
1 
5 
4 
6 
5 



Persons Ltq.Gold2.00 

1.50 

1.50 

1.50 

1.50 

1.50 

1.50 

1.50 

3.00 

4.00 

7.00 

1.60 

1.50 

1.50 

1.50 

1.50 

1.50 

4.50 

1.00 

1.50 

2.00 

8.50 

6.50 

1.50 

4.50 

4.00 

4.00 

8.50 

0.40 

1.00 

1.50 

1.00 

1.00 

2.00 



103 



Ltq. 105.40 



Support of the families of the expelled Americans which remained 
in Jerusalem: 

Persons December 13 December 19 December 26 

A Family of 6 54 54 64 

4 36 86 86 

4 36 86 86 

8 27 27 27 

6 54 54 54 
3 27 27 27 

7 63 63 63 
3 27 27 27 
2 18 18 18 

8 27 27 27 
7 68 68 68 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



91 



A family of 



Persons December 18 December 19 December 26 



9 
9 
36 
18 
36 
81 
45 
45 
54 
27 
54 
36 
36 
9 
81 
63 
54 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 



Total 



160 



1,125 



9 


9 


9 


9 


36 


36 


18 


18 


36 


36 


81 


81 


45 


45 


45 


45 


54 


54 


27 


27 


54 


63 


36 


36 


36 


36 


9 


9 


81 


81 


63 


63 


54 


54 


18 


18 


27 


27 


54 


54 


9 


9 


27 


27 


18 


18 


18 


18 


00 


27 


00 


18 


00 


18 


00 


36 


00 


36 



1,296 



1,440 



1917. 
Dec. 



1917. 

Nov. 

Dec. 



RECAPITULATION. 

31. Exiles Ltq.Goldl05.400 

Their Families: 
13. 125 Persons P.T. 1125.00 
19. 144 Persons P.T. 1296.00 
26. 160 Persons P.T. 1440.00 P.T. 3861.00 33.575 



429 



Ltq.Goldl 38.975 



APPENDIX 59. 
Medical Help. 

30. Our Payment Ltq.Gold3.406 

31. " " 70.000 



Ltq.Gold73.406 



92 



1917. 




Nov. 


16 


<< 


13 


" 


13 


«< 


13 


" 


13 


Dec. 


7 


' 


7 


a 


20 


Nov. 


18 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 

APPENDIX 60. 

Loans to Institutions. 

The Straus Soup Kitchen Ltq.Gold 12.000 

16.820 



1917. 




Nov. 


13 


Dec. 


20 


" 


20 


*' 


20 


" 


31 


" 


31 



The Lunatic Asylum 
Moshav Zkenim 



" 


20.000 




" 


24.000 




" 


24.523 


97.343 


•< 


24.000 




24.000 


48.000 


ylum 


5.000 




12.262 






17,262 







Ltq.Goldl62.605 



APPENDIX 61. 
Loans to Individuals. 
A private loan Ltq.Gold3.00 



1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 



Ltq.Gold3.00 



The staff for flour purchase 

APPENDIX 62. 
Sundry and Office Expenses. 



5.00 

7.152 



Ltq.Goldl5.152 



1917. 
Dec. 81. 


Sundry Expenses: 
Transport of flour . . 
Repairs 


Ltq 


Gold5.000 
0.450 
8.973 

1.286 
226.500 






Sundries 




Dec. 31. 


OfBce Expenses: 


Ltq.Gold 14.423 

227.786 







Ltq.Gold242.209 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 93 

APPENDIX 63. 

The Jerusalem Wheat Syndicate. 

VIDE APPENDIX 49. 

APPENDIX 64. 

Central Administration. 
1918. 

Jan. 3. Received £25.000 

7. " 20.000 

16. " 5.000 

17. " 17.000 

24. " 28.000 

81. " 27.000 

81. Paid for account Jerusalem. . 50.000 

81. " " " " . . 106.000 

31. " *' " " 20.000 

81. " " " " 50.000 

31. " ** " " 5.000 

31. " " " " . . 32.272 

81. " " " " 312.000 

31. " " " " 21.000 

81. " " " " 309.000 

31. " " " " . . 3.000 

31. " " " " 173.333 

31. " " " " 138.666 



Feb. 



6. 




500.000 


13 


" 


500.000 


9,7 


n 


1,285.820 


27. 


Paid for account Jerusalem. . 


69.333 


27. 


<< n tt « 


370.892 


27. 


" " " " 


252.406 


27. 


" " " " 


60.000 


27. 


" " " " 


1,213.320 


27. 




84.933 



£1,342.271 



Mar. 7. Received 300.000 

10. " 400.000 

13. " 250.000 

15. " 1,000.000 

25. " 750.000 

27. " 500.000 

80. " 200.000 

30. Paid for account Jerusalem. . 25.000 

30. " " " " . . 6.000 

30. " " " " 6.000 

80. " " " " 5.000 



3,244.716 



94 



Jomt Distribution Committee of the 



Mi 



Apr. 



80. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
80. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
31. 
31. 

30. 
80. 
30. 
30. 
80. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 
30. 



May 1. 

1. 

2. 

5. 
15. 
17. 
19. 
24. 
28. 
29. 
29. 
29. 
29. 



Paid for 


account 


Jerusalem 


£50,000 

75.000 

250.000 

225.000 

124.875 

2.210 

820.000 

12.930 

110.240 

672.576 

646.908 

75.000 

440.000 

207.464 

0.200 

25.000 

20.000 


Received 


300.000 








925.000 








1,470.000 








1,520.000 








980.000 








1,125.000 








450.000 


Paid for 


account 


Jerusalem 


20.000 

697.970 

10 .000 




,, 


<« 


6.000 

3.000 

140.000 

252.660 

10.000 

3.700 

100.000 

48.000 

503.000 




94.050 




" 


" 


565.950 


Received 






700.000 
180.000 
1,635.000 
520.000 
870.000 
992.000 
350.000 
150.000 


Paid for 


account 


Jerusalem 


70.000 
40.000 
39.200 



£7,199.403 



8,564.330 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



95 



May 



29. 


Paid for account Jerusalem 




£142.000 




29. 


n «« «« « 




10.000 




29. 


Received 




507.000 




29. 


" 




445.500 




29. 


n 




450.000 




29. 







400.00 




29. 







100.000 




29. 


Paid for account Jerusalem. 




600.000 




29. 


" " " " 




3,049.500 




29. 


" " " 




6.530 




29. 


t , „ .« 




53.725 




29. 


" 




100.000 




29. 


it tt a 




30.000 




29. 


" 




100.000 




29. 


tt it «« " 




10.000 




29. 


" 




50.000 




29. 


" " " " 




15.000 




29. 


« " " " 




20.000 




29. 


" " " " 




50.000 




29. 


" 




450.000 




31. 


" 




8.000 




31. 


" 




22.000 




31. 


t, tt tt " 




5.000 




31. 


" " " " 




20.000 




31. 


tt tt tt tt 




20.000 




31. 


" 




50.000 




31. 


tt << << " 




50.000 




31. 


tt << <j << 




3.000 




31. 


tt tt a a 




26.000 




31. 


a i 




200.000 


13,199.455 








31. 


" " " " 






49.875 




Total 


£33,600.050 




Paid back to the Central Ad- 








ministration or paid for its 










£52,608 








26.430 








235.733 












314.771 












£33,285.279 



APPENDIX 65. 
Sundry Debtors. 

The Staff £6.270 

The Nathan Straus Soup Kitchen 127.650 

£133.820 



96 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



APPENDIX 66. 

Food Distributions to Schools 
1918. 
January : 

Name of School 

Hebrew Teachers' Seminary 

Boys' School 

Girls' School 

Kindergarten A 

Kindergarten B 

Shaare Hessed 

Alliance School 

E. de Rothschild Girls' School 

Tachkemoni School 

Hilfsverein Boys' School 

Girls' School 

Kindergarten B 

Kindergarten C 

Rothschild School (Hilfsver. Adm.) 

Talmud Torah Etz Chaim 

Mea Shearim 



Sephardim 

Moroccans 

Yemenites 

Silva (Yemenites) 

Suckath Shalom . 

Georgians 

Yesheevath Zion . 

Haye Olam 

Doresh Zion 

Allepoans 

Bucharians 

Allepoans N. Z. . 

Persians 

Hungarians 

Cassutto 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 

Jona Mann 

Bravermann 

Heder Torah 

Dirdak 

Weintraub 

Grossman 

Garfinkel 

Rabinowitz 

Rabinowitz Minsk 

" Arab 

Silbermann 

Benoth Israel 



Hotels 
of Bread 


P.T.* 


147.00 


1,366.0 


321.50 
512.25 


2,987.8 
4,760.4 


230.41 

162.37 

23.12 


2,141.2 

1,508.9 

214.8 


372.00 
148.25 


3,457.0 
1,377.7 


154.48 


1,435.6 


339.00 


3,150.4 


313.00 


2,908.7 


312.42 


2,912.6 


247.00 
200.00 


2,295.4 

1,858.6 


909.07 
343.00 


8,448.0 
2,791.9 


324.94 


3,019.7 


58.33 


542.0 


140.00 


1,301.0 


23.97 


222.7 


60.00 


557.6 


106.25 


987.4 


128.22 


1,191.6 


178.13 


1,654.4 


45.50 


422.8 


67.37 


626.0 


218.50 


2,030.6 


140.00 


1,301.0 


46.62 


433.3 


119.00 
56.00 


1,105.8 
520.4 


43.33 


402.7 


127.75 


1,187.2 


34.72 


317.0 


108.33 

115.88 

52.50 


1,006.7 

1,076.9 

487.8 


38.50 


357.8 


6.67 


61.0 


11.50 


106.8 


57.71 


536.3 


40.50 


376.4 


18.29 


170.0 


275.94 


2,564.3 



*P.T.=Egyptlan Piastres. 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



97 



1918. 

January : 

Name of School 

Heder Girls' Shaare Hessed 

Sophrim School 

Bezalel 

Women's Workshop Kadima 

Beth Melacha 
" Schoschannah 

Wool Workshops 

Sundry Subventions 



Rotels 
of Bread 

30.00 

21.75 

56.80 

181.25 

96.47 

156.67 

156.45 

27.25 



P.T.* 

278.8 

202.2 

527.8 

1,684.3 

896.6 

1,455.9 

1,453.9 

323.8 



8,063.50 75,007.4 



1918. 
February: 



Hebrew Teachers' Seminary 

" Boys' School 

Girls' School 

" Kindergarten A 

" Kindergarten B 

" Shaare Hessed 

Alliance School 

E. de Rothschild Girls' School 

Tachkemoni School 

Hilfsvereia Boys' School 

" Girls' School 

" Kindergarten B 

" Kindergarten C 

" Adm. Rothschild School. 

Talmud Torah Etz Chaim 

" K Mea Shearim 

Sephardim 

Moroccans 

Yemenites 

Silva 

Suckath Shalom .... 

Georgians 

Yesheevath Zion .... 

Haye Olam 

Doresh Zion 

Allepoans 

Bucharians 

Allepoans N. Z 

Persians 

Hungarians 

Cassutto 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 

" Jona Mann 

" Bravermann 

Heder Torah 



Rice 
Rotels 

16.00 
44.60 
80.80 
86.60 
24.90 

60.90 

25.00 

23.60 

51.60 

47.00 

41.90 

37.30 

30.00 

142.20 

50.90 

50.00 

6.30 

27.09 

3.60 

7.60 

16.30 

16.40 

24.90 

10.90 

10.90 

35.00 

20.00 

7.50 

27.90 

8.00 

7.60 

15.60 

5.00 

9.60 



P.T. 

184.00 
513.00 
925.00 
420.00 
285.00 

700.00 
288.00 
270.00 
594.00 
542.00 
981.00 
429.00 
346.00 
1,629.00 
586.00 
577.00 

73.00 
311.00 

41.00 

87.00 
187.00 
188.00 
285.00 
124.00 
124.00 
404.00 
231.00 

87.00 
820.00 

92.00 

86.00 
178.00 

58.00 
109.00 



Bread 

Rotels 

185.00 
221.80 
422.00 
142.00 
91.87 
19.75 
293.12 
106.25 
99.96 
293.00 
201.89 
250.50 
145.00 
149.54 
730.33 
264.50 
295.08 
32.08 
140.42 
16.75 
24.37 
76.50 
85.11 
143.70 
95.50 
63.00 
215.50 
96.50 
32.58 
89.25 
40.80 
33.33 
66.00 
27.62 
§0.66 



P.T. 
1,562.0 
1,883.0 
3,564.0 
1,200.0 
775.0 
168.0 
2,497.0 
893.0 
844.0 
2,474.0 
1,706.0 
2,116.0 
1,227.0 
1,262.0 
6,166.0 
2,233.0 
2,491.0 
271.0 
1,186.0 
141.0 
205.0 
646.0 
719.0 
1,213.0 
806.0 
532.0 
1,819.0 
814.0 
275.0 
754.0 
344.0 
282.0 
557.0 
238.0 
512.0 



98 



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1918. 
February: 

Name of School 
Heder Dirdak 

" Weintraub 

" Grossman 

" Zbinovsky 

" Rabinowitz 

" Arab 

" Silbermann 

" Benoth Israel 

Heder Girls' Shaare Hessed 

Sophrim School 

Bezalel 

Women's Workshops Kadima 

" " Beth Melacha. 

" " Schoschannah . 
Wool Workshops 



1918. 
March: 

Hebrew Teachers' Seminary . . 

" Boys' School 

" Girls' School 

" Kindergarten A 

" Kindergarten B 

" Yem Moshe 

" Shaare Hessed 

Alliance School 

E. de Rothschild Girls' School. 

Tachkemoni School 

Hilfsverein Boys' School 

" Girls' School 

" Kindergarten B . . 

" Kindergarten C . . 

" Adm. Rothschild . 

Talmud Torah Etz Chaim 

" " Mea Shearim . . 



Sephardim 

Moroccans 

Yemenites 

Silva 

Suckath Shalom . 

Georgians 

Yesheevath Zion . 

Haye Olam 

Doresh Zion .... 

Allepoans 

Buchanans 

Allepoans Nah. Z. 

Persians 

Hungarians 



Rice 
Rotels 
16.00 

10.30 

7.00 

2.00 

7.60 

5.00 

2.60 

45.00 

5.00 

4.30 

8.00 

21.60 

16.10 

23.30 

25.30 



P.T. 
184.00 

118.00 

81.00 

23.00 

87.00 

58.00 

29.00 

519.00 

58.00 

49.00 

92.00 

247.00 

194.00 

267.00 

290.00 



Bread 
Rotels 
107.00 

45.00 

86.75 

85.63 
25.31 
13.13 

282.22 
31.25 
14.90 
56.00 

170.00 
50.25 

129.33 
82.80 



P.T. 
903.0 

380.0 

810.0 

800.0 
214.0 
111.0 

2,383.0 
264.0 
129.0 
475.0 

1,437.0 
429.0 

1,044.0 
704.0 



1,219.80 14,050.00 6,331.06 53,453.0 



16.00 144.00 

44.50 400.50 

80.25 722.00 

28.50 256.50 

24.75 223.00 



15.00 
55.50 
25.00 
23.50 
51.50 
47.00 
41.75 
37.75 
30.00 
145.42 
53.25 
52.50 

6.25 
27.00 

3.50 

7.50 
16.25 
15.00 
34.75 
10.75 
10.75 
85.00 
20.00 

7.50 
18.50 



135.00 

499.50 

225.00 

211.50 

463.50 

423.00 

375.50 

335.00 

270.00 

1,308.00 

480.00 

472.50 

56.00 

243.00 

31.50 

67.50 

146.00 

185.00 

223.00 

97.00 

97.00 

815.00 

180.00 

67.50 

166.50 



136.00 

177.33 

252.91 

189.47 

169.50 

49.25 

20.00 

246.48 

118.75 

94.80 

198.75 

226.80 

166.75 

111.25 

145.83 

615.95 

255.87 

210.00 

27.62 

106.66 

14.70 

37.47 

59.50 

80.04 

121.80 

51.00 

55.12 

159.50 

65.00 

85.37 

59.50 



1,305.0 

1,703.0 

2,428.0 

1,819.0 

1,627.0 

470.0 

192.0 

2,366.0 

1,140.0 

903.0 

1,908.0 

2,170.0 

1,600.0 

1,068.0 

1,410.0 

5,913.0 

2,456.0 

2,016.0 

265.0 

1,024.0 

141.0 

860.0 

571.0 

770.0 

1,165.0 

490.0 

630.0 

1,531.0 

624.0 

840.0 

571.0 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



1918. 

March: Rice Bread 

Name of School Rotels P.T. Rotels P.T. 

Talmud Torah Cassutto 8.00 72.00 34.00 326.0 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 7.50 67.50 81.67 804.0 

" Jona Mann 12.58 113.50 63.75 610.0 

" Bravermann 5.00 45.00 23.00 221.0 

Heder Torah 9.50 85.50 33.25 319.0 

" Dirdak 16.00 144.00 59.60 571.0 

" Weintraub 10.25 92.00 47.50 456.0 

" Grossmann 7.00 63.00 35.00 336.0 

" Zbinofsky 2.00 18.00 

" Rabinowitz 7.50 67.50 29.88 287.0 

" Arab 5.00 45.00 37.54 361.0 

" Silbermann 2.50 22.50 11.25 108.0 

" Benoth Israel 45.00 405.00 219.00 2,102.0 

" Girls' Shaare Hessed 5.00 45.00 17.50 168.0 

Sophrim School 4.25 38.00 29.44 282.0 

Bezalel 8.00 72.00 28.00 268.0 

Women's Workshops Kadima 21.50 193.50 126.00 1,208.0 

" " Beth Melacha... 16.75 151.00 92.12 883.0 

" " Schoschannah .. 23.25 209.50 82.16 788.0 

Wool Workshops 25.25 227.00 

Women Workshops Alliance 10.00 90.00 35.00 336.0 

191g 1,226.75 11,036.00 5,297.59 50,809.0 

April : Bread 

Name of School Rotels P.T. 

Hebrew Teachers' Seminary 208.00 2,080.0 

Boys' School 317.00 3,170.0 

Girls' School 702.67 7,026.7 

Kindergarten A 250.82 2,508.2 

Kindergarten B 177.50 1,775.0 

Yemin Moshe 83.69 836.9 

Shaare Hessed 23.75 237.5 

Alliance School 301.13 3,011.3 

Ev. de Rothschild School 118.75 1,187.5 

" (New Adm.)... 390.60 3,906.0 

Tachkemoni School 132.58 1,325.8 

Hilfsverein Teachers' Seminary 35.00 350.0 

Boys' School 318.00 3,180.0 

Girls' School 347.37 3,473.7 

Kindergarten B 241.29 2,412.9 

Kindergarten C 295.50 2.955.0 

Rothschilds' School (Hilfsver. Adm.) 114.32 1,148.2 

Talmud Torah Etz Chaim 817.11 8,171.1 

Mea Shearim 315.50 3,155.0 

Sephardim 225.50 2,255.0 

Moroccans 39.00 390.0 

Yemenites 171.00 1,710.0 

Silva 19.37 193.7 

Suckath Shalom 47.50 475.0 



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1918. 

April : 

Name of School 

Talmud Torah Georgians 

" Yesheevath Zion 

Haye Olam 

" Doresh Zion 

Allepoans 

" Bucharians 

Allepoans Nah. Zion. 

" Persians 

" Hungarians 

Cassutto 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 

Jona Mann 

Bravermann 

Heder Torah 

" Dirdak 

Weintraub 

Grossman 

Rabinowitz 

Arab 

Silbermann 

Benoth Israel 

Girls' Shaare Hessed 

" Boys' Beth Israel 

" Eben Israel 

" Frymann 

Sophrim School 

Bezalel 

Women's Workshops Kadima 

Beth Melacha . 
Schoschannah . 

Wool Workshops 

Alliance Workshops 

Flowers' Workshops 

Sundry 



Bread 



1918. 

Mays Rice 

Name of School Rotels 

Hebrew Teachers' Seminary 27.50 

" Boys' School 54.50 

Girls' School 89.83 

" Kindergarten A 41.84 

" Kindergarten B 87.84 

" Yemin Moshe 18.66 

" Shaare Hessed 5.50 

Hashilowh 17.00 

" Mazkeret Rand 

Alliance School 79.00 



Rotels 


P.T. 


91.62 


916.2 


106.86 


1,068.6 


171.84 


1,718.4 


71.75 


717.5 


74.00 


740.0 


199.04 


1,990.4 


120.00 


1,200.0 


39.67 


396.7 


143.06 


1,430.6 


48.00 


480.0 


47.33 


473.3 


85.25 


852.5 


83.35 


333.5 


95.75 


957.5 


108.75 


1,087.5 


109.87 


1,098.7 


53.25 


532.5 


48.58 


485.8 


57.58 


575. S 


23.75 


237.5 


287.49 


2,874.9 


37.00 


370.0 


6.25 


62.5 


5.80 


58.0 


29.75 


297.5 


30.50 


305.0 


71.25 


712.5 


191.00 


1,910.0 


121.12 


1,211.2 


154.82 


1,548.2 


239.14 


2,391.4 


60.58 


605.8 


6.00 


60.0 


11.92 


119.2 


8,674.87 1 


36,748.7 


Bread 




P.T. Rotels 


P.T. 


247.50 232.00 


2,320.0 


490.50 328.88 


3,288.8 


885.00 586.34 


5,863.4 


376.50 284.63 


2,846.3 


840.50 247.50 


2,475.0 


168.00 155.37 


1,553.7 


49.50 27.12 


271.2 


153.00 14.87 


148.7 


8.25 


82.5 


711.00 277.63 


2,776.8 



American Fund* for Jewish War Suffer erg 



101 



1918. 
June: 

Name of School 

E. de Rothschilds' Schools 

Tachkemoni School 

Hilfsverein Teachers' Seminary 

Boys' School 

Girls' School 

Kindergarten B 

" Kindergarten C 

Talmud Torah Etz Chaim 

" " Mea Shearim 

" " Sephardim 

" Moroccans 

" Yemenite 

" Silva 

" Suckath Shalom 

" " Georgians 

" " Yesheevath Zion 

" Haye Olam 

" Doresh Zion 

" Allepoans 

" Bacharians 

" " Allepoans Nah. Zion. 

" Persians 

" Hungarians 

" " Cassutto 

Yesheevath Bachoorim 

Jona Mann 

Bravermann 

Heder Torah 

" Dirdak 

" Weintraub 

" Grossman 

" Rabinowitz 

" A rab 

" Silbermann 

" Benoth Israel 

" Girls' Shaare Hessed 

" Boys' Beth Israel 

" Eben Israel 

" Fryman 

" Zbinovsky 

" Austrian 

Sophrim School 

Bezalel 

Women's Workshops Kadima 

Beth Melacha. 
Schoschannah . 

Wool Workshops 

Alliance Workshops 

Flowers' Workshops 



Rico 




Bread 




Rotels 


P.T. 


Rotels 


P.T. 


184.50 


1,210.50 


826.53 


8,265.3 


86.00 


824.00 


252.00 


2,520.0 


10.00 


90.00 


87.75 


877.5 


32.50 


292.50 


289.57 


2,895.7 


53.33 


480.00 


339.79 


3,397.9 


88.00 


842.00 


252.50 


2,525.0 


37.84 


340.50 


249.75 


2,497.5 


136.17 


1,225.50 


838.05 


8,380.5 


29.42 


265.00 


839.25 


8,392.5 


59.50 


535.50 


886.75 


8,867.5 


12.75 


114.50 


89.00 


390.0 


29.00 


261.00 


180.08 


1,800.8 


3.50 


31.50 


21.16 


211.6 


8.00 


72.00 


43.50 


435.0 


14.84 


133.50 


91.68 


916.8 


17.33 


156.00 


110.94 


1,109.4 


28.33 


255.00 


183.00 


1,830.0 


23.84 


214.50 


113.75 


1,137.5 


7.83 


70.50 


46.48 


464.8 


81.66 


285.00 


284.12 


2,841.2 


21.33 


192.00 


133.46 


1,334.6 


7.83 


70.50 


46.60 


466.0 


47.66 


429.00 


298.47 


2,984.7 


8.50 


76.50 


48.00 


480.0 


10.33 


93.00 


67.16 


671.6 


21.83 


196.50 


107.25 


1,072.5 


11.83 


106.50 


75.98 


759.S 


15.17 


136.50 


80.00 


800.0 


20.33 


183.00 


136.68 


1,366.8 


12.17 


109.50 


245.00 


2,450.0 


4.75 


43.00 


66.05 


660.5 


11.50 


103.50 


54.00 


540.0 


9.84 


88.50 


58.50 


585.0 


5.50 


49.50 


88.50 


385.0 


82.00 


738.00 


415.07 


8,150.7 


9.00 


81.00 


54.00 


540.0 


15.17 


136.50 


133.00 


1,830.0 


3.50 


31.50 


28.00 


280.0 


17.00 


153.00 


102.00 


1,020.0 


2.00 


18.00 






1.17 


10.50 


2.25 


22.5 


5.75 


51.50 


42.20 


422.0 


19.50 


175.50 


117.00 


1,170.0 


34.00 


306.00 


204.00 


2,040.0 


36.50 


328.50 


256.63 


2,566.3 


31.00 


279.00 


186.00 


1,860.0 


44.00 


896.00 


177.75 


1,777.5 


10.33 


93.00 


62.00 


620.0 


8.00 


72.00 


19.00 


190.0 



1,648.50 14,791.50 10,892.79 103,927.9 



102 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

RECAPITULATION. 

Bread Rice Total 

1918. Rotels Price £ Rotels Price £ Rotels £ 

January 8,063.39 9.293 750.074 8,063.50 750.074 

February 6,331.06 8.443 534.530 1,221.08 11.53 140.50 7.551.14 675.030 

March 5,292.59 9.600 508.090 1,226.26 9.00 110.36 6,518.84 618.450 

April 8,674.87 10.000 857.487 8,674.87 867.487 

May 10,392.79 10.000 1,039.279 1,643.50 9.00 147.91 512,036.29 1,187.194 



Total 38,754.70 3,699.460 4,090.83 398.77 542,844.64 4,098.235 

Total £4,098.235 

Differences in the calculation as compared with invoice — prices 51.650 

£4,046.585 

APPENDIX 67. 
Food Distribution and Support to Charitable Institutions. 

1918. 

J anuary : 

Institution Rotels £ £ 

Flour: 

Diskins Orphanage 480.00 61.328 

Blumenthals Orphanage 555.80 71.015 

Weingartens Orphanage 410.10 52.397 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 145.00 18.525 

Hadassah Hospital 95.00 12.137 

Esrath-Nashim Hospital 185.33 23.678 

1,871.23 239.080 

Bread: 

Sephardic Orphanage 118.50 11.012 

United Old Aged Home 900.58 83.691 

Sephardic Old Aged Home 95.50 8.875 

Blind Institute 201.50 18.725 

1,316.08 122.303 

Cash: 

Blumenthals Orphanage 7.930 

Hadassah Hospital 50.000 

Weingartens Orphanage 5.000 

62.930 

1918. 

February. 

Flour: 

Diskins Orphanage 510.00 58.180 

Blumenthals Orphanage 510.00 53.170 

Weingartens Orphanage 360.00 87.540 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 50.00 5.210 

Hadassah Hospital 82.50 8.600 

Esrath Nashim Hospital 185.00 19.300 

1,697.50 177.00C 

Bread: 

Sephardic Orphanage 98.00 8.280 

United Old Aged Home 915.16 77.270 

Sephardic Old Aged Home 144.00 12.160 

Blind Institute 182.00 15.860 

1,889.16 118.070 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



103 



1918. 
February 2 

Institution Rotels 

Cash: 

Shaare Zedek Hospital 

Blumenthals Orphanage 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 

Hadassa Hospital 

1918: 
March. 

Flour: 

Diskins Orphanage 195.00 

Blumenthals Orphanage 225.00 

Weingartens Orphanage 171.50 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 90.00 

Hadassa Hospital 110.00 

Esrath Nashim Hospital 68.00 

Shaare Zedek Hospital 240.00 

Straus Soup Kitchen 150.00 

Amsterdam Soup Kitchens 300.00 

Bread: 

Sephardic Orphanage 45.00 

United Old Aged Home 932.85 

Sephardic Old Aged Home 66.87 

Blind Institute 175.50 

Rations : 

United Old Aged Home 646.00 

Weingartens Orphanage 814.00 

Blumenthals Orphanage 126.00 

Esrath Nashim Hospital 447.00 

Diskins Orphanage 588.00 

Blinds Institute 

Sephardic Old Aged Home 

Hadassah Hospital 

Sephardic Orphanage 



Cash: 

United Old Aged Home 

Hadassah Hospital 

Kadima Work Shop 

Women's Workshop Beth Melacha. . . 
50 Pair Stockings for Kindergarten. 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 

Hadassah Hospital 



1,549.50 



1,270.22 



15.000 
5.000 
7.500 
5.000 



23.500 
27.000 
20.580 
10.800 
13.200 
8.160 
28.800 
18.000 
36.000 



4.320 
94.850 

6.420 
16.850 



32.500 



185.940 



121.940 



117.00 


P.T. 


72.00 


815 Rations a 6.0 


150.00 


806 Rations a 6.8 


42.00 


881 Rations a 6.8 




2,502 Rations 




159.586 




20.000 




25.000 




6.000 




6.000 




5.000 




50.000 




100.000 



104 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



1918: 
April. 

Institution Hotels 

Flour: 





485.00 


60.465 




890.00 


54.210 




195.00 


27.105 




90.00 


12.510 




120.00 


16.680 




120.00 


16.680 




87.75 

1 ilftT 11 


12.200 








Bread: 








78.50 


7.350 




110.50 


11.050 




80.00 


8.000 




19.50 


1.950 


Special Flour Distribution: 








84.66 


4.160 




84.66 


4.160 




84.66 


4.160 


Weingartens Hospital 


84.66 


4.160 




84.66 

1 to oo 


4.160 


Lentils : 






United Old Aged Home Kg 


-.120.00 


6.000 




16.00 


0.800 




11.00 


0.550 




24.00 


1.200 


Diskins Orphanage 


120.00 


6.000 




96.00 

. . Tffrf?RTOft 


4.800 








Rations : 








19.110 




' 150 


14.700 




' 110 


10.780 


United Old Aged Home ' 


' 224 


21.954 




80 


2.940 




45 


4.410 




' 89 

793 Souls a P. 


8.824 




r. 9.800 


Cash: 











100.000 






800.000 






62.270 






7.000 






6.000 






8.000 



199.850 



28.850 



20.800 



19.850 



77.718 



598.270 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 105 

May. 

Institution Rotels £ £ 

Flour: 

Hilfsverein Orphanage 143.25 18.622 

Diskins Orphanage 525.00 68.250 

Blumenthals Orphanage 652.50 84.955 

Weingartens Orphanage 420.00 54.600 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 105.00 13.650 

Hadassah Hospital 165.00 21.450 

Esrath Nashim Hospital 205.00 26.650 

Shaare Zedek Hospital 240.00 81.200 

2,456.75 819.877 

Bread: 

Missgab Ladach Hospital 66.16 6.616 

Sephardic Orphanage 105.00 10.500 

United Old Aged Home 746.33 74.633 

Sephardic Old Aged Home 150.50 15.050 

Blinds Institution 201.50 20.150 

Blumenthals Orphanage 44.75 4.475 

1,814.24 131.424 

Rice: 

Hadassah Hospital 15.00 1.350 

Blumenthals Orphanage 120.00 10.800 

135.00 12.150 

Cash: 

Shaare Zedek Hospital 39.200 

Hadassah Hospital 80.000 

Shaare Zedek Hospital 350.000 

Zerath Nashim Hospital 10.000 

Women's Workshop Kadima 15.000 

Weingartens Orphanage 20.000 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 50.000 

Shaare Zedek Hospital, for flour 80.000 

Blumenthals Orphanage 6.500 

800.700 



1,263.651 



RECAPITULATION. 
1918. 

January £424.313 

February 322.570 

March 679.466 

April 914.338 

May 1,263.651 

Total £3,604.338 

To be deducted for difference between assumed price of 

flour and actual invoice price 29.200 

£3,575.158 



106 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

APPENDIX 68. 

Food Distribution to Orphans. 

Bread Rice 

1918. Rotels £ Rotels £ 

January 2,555.00 237.510 

February 2,087.00 176.200 640.12 73.770 

March 1,720.46 165.160 663.66 59.730 

April 2,433.23 243.320 

May 3,287.50 328.750 

12,083.19 1,150.940 1,304.08 133.500 

Bread 12,083.19 Rotels £1,150.940 

Rice 1,304.08 Rotels 133.500 

13,387.27 Rotels £1,284.440 

Difference in the calculation as compared with invoice 

prices 10.547 



£1,273.893 
APPENDIX 69. 

Old Aged Support. 

Ashkenasim : 48 couples 96 souls 

44 widowers 44 " 

310 widows 310 

450 souls 

Sephardim: 4 couples 8 souls 

20 widowers 20 " 

851 widows 351 " 

379 '* 



829 souls 



These 829 souls received during the 48 last days of the 
period under report 2 Okia of bread a day — 829 x 2 x 48 
= 7958.4 Okia = Rotels 6632 (a) P.T.I 1.5 £765.785 



APPENDIX 70. 
Widows' Support. 



Rations 



1101 Widows without families receive one ration each from 
the Jerusalem Jewish Food Committee, which is paid 
for by the Relief Committee 1,101.000 

1009 Widows with a family receive in the same way @ 

2 Rations 2,018.000 

2110 Widows receive 3,119.000 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



107 



First Distribution: 
Second Distribution: 
Third Distribution: 



Cost of These Rations. 

3108 Rations @ P.T.13.0. . . 
*2579 Rations @ P.T.14.6... 
*2412 Rations (a) P.T.16.0. . . 



Special Distribution, not through the Food Committee: 
2562 Rations 



£404.040 
376.534 
385.920 

£1,166.494 

312.162 

£1,478.656 



APPENDIX 71. 







Soldiers' Families' 


Support. 










March 


1918 






Families 


of Souls 


at P.T. 




P.T. 


Souls 


49 


1 




50.00 




2,450.00 


49 


64 


2 




100.00 




6,400.00 


128 


82 


3 




100.00 




8,200.00 


246 


67 


4 




100.00 




6,700.00 


268 


50 


5 




115.00 




5,750.00 


250 


34 


6 




130.00 




4,420.00 


204 


12 


7 




145.00 




1,740.00 


84 


3 


8 




160.00 




480.00 


24 


1 


9 




175.00 




175.00 


9 


3 


10 




190.00 




570.00 


30 



365 



36,885.00 



1,292 



April. 



Families 


of Souls 


at P.T. 


P.T. 


Souls 


68 


1 


50.00 


3,400.00 


68 


104 


2 


100.00 


10,400.00 


208 


102 


3 


100.00 


10,200.00 


306 


88 


4 


100.00 


8,800.00 


352 


39 


5 


115.00 


6,785.00 


295 


39 


6 


130.00 


5,070.00 


234 


12 


7 


145.00 


1,740.00 


84 


6 


8 


160.00 


800.00 


40 


1 


9 


175.00 


175.00 


9 


3 


10 


190.00 


570.00 


30 


461 


47,940.00 


1,626 



*Number diminished owing to widows being made self-supporting or transferred 
to other Categories. 



103 



480 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 
May 



Families 


of Souls 


at P.T. 


P.T. 


Souls 


78 


1 


50.00 


3,900.00 


78 


98 


2 


100.00 


9,800.00 


196 


100 


3 


100.00 


10,000.00 


300 


85 


4 


100.00 


8,500.00 


340 


58 


5 


115.00 


6,670.00 


290 


37 


6 


130.00 


4,810.00 


222 


16 


7 


145.00 


2,320.00 


112 


4 


8 


160.00 


640.00 


32 


1 


9 


175.00 


175.00 


9 


8 


10 


190.00 


570.00 


30 



47,385 



1,609 



1918. 



RECAPITULATION. 



March £368.85 

April 479.40 

May 473.85 



Families 


Souls 


365 


1,292 


481 


1,626 


480 


1,609 



1,322.10 

APPENDIX 72. 

Food Distribution to the General Poor. 

This distribution was a complement to the Passover Distributions. 
It extended over 

2271 Ashkenasic families with 10,356 Souls 
2483 Sephardic families with 10,516 " 



4754 20,872 Souls 

who received 2 Okias of flour per soul 3,479.25 Rotels 



£414.27 



APPENDIX 73. 

Oranges Distribution to the General Poor. 

Cost of transport from the garden to Jerusalem. . .• £117.000 

Distribution Expenses 21.160 

£138.160 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



109 



APPENDIX 74. 

Rabbis' Support. 

16 members of Ashkenasic Bate Dynim and 
7 members of Sephardic Bate Dynim. 

Received in cash £24-2.190 

Received in flour 255.718 

Received in rice 21.410 



£519.316 



APPENDIX 75. 

Talmudic Scholars' Support and Talmud Torah Teachers' 

Salaries. 

Receipts and Expenditure of the Special Department from the 
1st of January until the 31st of Mav 1918. 

Receipts. 

Balance in cash on 1st January 1918 (Ltq.57.625) £50.566 

Received from the Jerus. American Relief Committee. . . 5,553.408 

Received from the Palestine Zionist Office 435.135 

Received from the Amsterdam Administration (Pekidim & 

Amarkalim) 360.800 

Repayment from the Talmud Torah Etz Chaim 1.590 



£6,401.499 



Expenditure. 

January £711.099 

February 1,062.180 

March ■-.-,.. 1,254.790 

April 1,605.840 

May 1,767.590 



£6,401.499 



Expenditure. 

January 1918. 

I. Talmud Torah Teachers. 



January. 



10 



Talmud Torah Etz Chaim . 
Mea Shearim 
Have Olam . 
Har Zion . . 
Doresh Zion 
Yemenite . . 



P.T. 

8,040.00 
912.00 
712.00 
496.00 
480.00 
288.00 



£59.280 



110 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



January. 




P.T. 




10 Talmud Torah Etz Chaim . . 


. 8,040.00 






Mea Shearim. 


. 1,008.00 






Haye Olam. . 


712.00 






Har Zion . . . 


504.00 






Doresh Zion . 


480.00 






Yemenite 


288.00 






Hungarian . . 


552.00 


£65.840 


17 


Etz Chaim . . 


. 3,775.00 


' 


Mea Shearim. 


. 1,284.00 




1 


Haye Olam . 


832.00 




« 


" Har Zion . . . 


620.00 




t 


Doresh Zion 


& 






Yemenite . 


. 1,022.00 




* 


Moroccans . . 


50.00 




' 


Georgians . . . 


216.00 






Hungarians . 


690.00 


84.890 


24 


Etz Chaim . . 


. 3,739.00 




Mea Shearim . 


. 1,248.00 






Haye Olam . 


832.00 






Hungarians . 


690.00 






Georgians . . . 


120.00 






Har Zion . . . 


620.00 






Doresh Zion 


& 






Yemenite . 


994.00 


82.430 


31 


Georgians . . . 


120.00 




Moroccans . . 


50.00 


1.700 
£294.140 









II. Yesheevath. 
January. 

8 Yesheevath Bachoorim 

10 " Mea Shearim 765.00 

Or Hadash 232.00 



0.960 



9.970 



17 



Etz Chaim . . 
Mea Shearim 
Torah Chaim 
Haye Olam . . 
Hungarians . 



1,816.00 
1,727.00 
1,140.00 
1,637.00 
1,748.00 



80.680 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers HI 

January. P.T. 

24 Yesheevath Or Hadash 300.00 

Mea Shearim 115.00 

Etz Chaim 50.00 

Torah Chaim 40.00 

Bachoorim 550.00 

Hungarians 1,130.00 

Hamezuianim 1,194.00 

£33.790 

31 Hamezuianim 12.220 

£137.620 



III. Other Talmudic Scholars. 
January. 

10 1,113.00 

17 1,205.00 

24 '. 1,160.70 

31 1,075.50 

45.542 



IV. For Employees, Sundry and Rabbis. 

3 72.00 

10 72.00 

17 100.00 

24 65.00 

31 121.00 

4.300 



V. Various Expenditure. 

10 72.50 

24 .. 418.50 

4.910 



VI. Distribution of Flour. 

3 90 Rotels 1,650.00 

10 165 " 3,025.00 

24 320 " 4,160.00 

31 721.67" 9,386.00 



182.210 



£668.722 
Loss of Exchange 42.377 

£711.099 



112 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



I. Talmud Torah Teachers. 





February 


1918. 


February. 




P.T. 


7 Talmud 


Torah Etz Chaim . . 


. 8,639.00 


" 


Mea Shearim. 


1,283.00 




Haye Olam . 


832.00 


" 


Har Zion . . . 


620.00 


" 


Doresh Zion . 


994.00 


" 


Georgians . . . 


120.00 




Hungarians 


920.00 

Pot non 


14 


Etz Chaim . . 


X/O'i.KJOV 

. 8,639.00 


" 


Mea Shearim. 


1,368.00 


' ' 


Haye Olam . 


1,132.00 




Har Zion . . . 


620.00 


" 


Doresh Zion . 


940.00 


" 


Moroccans . . 


50.00 




Georgians . . . 


120.00 


21 


Etz Chaim . . . 


/ o.oyu 
5,523.50 


" 


Mea Shearim. . 


2,101.00 


" 


Haye Olam . . . 


1,282.00 


" 


Har Zion 


940.00 


" 


Doresh Zion . . 


1,501.00 




Hungarians 


542.00 




Georgians 


120.00 

1 ttn nni« 


28 


Haye Olam . . 


1 iU.W') 

1,260.00 


" 


Har Zion 


849.00 


" 


Doresh Zion . . 


1,381.00 


" 


Etz Chaim . . . 


7,312.00 


" 


Mea Shearim. . 


1,997.00 


" 


" Hungarians . . 


1,015.00 


" 


Georgians .... 


120.00 


" 


Moroccans . . . 


50.00 




Sephardim . . . 


50.00 




1,988.00 


" 


Mea Shearim .... 


2,381.00 


" 


Torah Chaim .... 


1,327.00 


" 




1,868.00 


" 




1,258.00 




Hamezuianim .... 


1,220.00 
100.420 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 113 

February. P.T. 

14 Yesheevath Etz Chaim 1,847.00 

Mea Shearim .... 1,909.00 

Torah Chaim .... 1,401.00 

Haye Olam 1,616.00 

Hungarians 1,237.00 

Ohev Moshe 810.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,635.00 

Or Hadash 573.00 

Bachoorim 1,400.00 

£124.280 

21 " Etz Chaim 2,164.00 

Mea Shearim .... 2,156.00 

Torah Chaim 1,542.00 

Haye Olam 1,758.00 

Hungarians 1,250.00 

Ohev Moshe 893.00 

Or Hadash 250.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,250.00 

Bachoorim 1,600.00 

128.630 

28 " Etz Chaim 2,810.00 

Mea Shearim .... 2,958.00 

Torah Chaim 2,240.00 

Haye Olam 2,433.00 

Ohev Moshe 1,254.00 

Or Hadash 350.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 810.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,825.00 

Hungarians 1,900.00 

Bachoorim 2,268.50 

188.485 

£548.815 

III. Other Talmudic Scholars. 
7, 14, 21, 28 P.T.1,245, 1,692, 1,875 and 2,062.5 = £68.745 

IV. Employees and Sundry Rabbis. 
7, 14, 21, 28 P.T.50, 402, 150 and 400 = 10.020 

V. Various Expenditure. 
February. 

7 200.00 

14 168.50 

21 125.00 

28 132.00 

6.255 



114 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



VI. Distribution of Flour. 



15.140 



March. 







£1,062.180 




March 1918. 




I. Talmud Torah Teachers. 






P.T. 


Talmud Torah Etz Chaim . . 


5,000.00 




Mea Shearim. 


1,888.00 




Haye Olam . 


1,180.00 




Har Zion . . . 


760.00 




Doresh Zion . 


1,159.00 




Hungarians 


732.00 




Georgians . . . 


200.00 




Sephardim . . 


50.00 

^ino ion 




Etz Chaim . . 


3J luy. i i/\j 
3,812.00 




Mea Shearim. 


1,427.00 




Haye Olam . . 


950.00 




Har Zion . . . 


634.00 




Doresh Zion . 


606.00 




Yemenite . . . 


360.00 




Hungarians 


710.00 




Georgians . . . 


120.00 




Moroccans . . 


50.00 




Sephardim . . 


50.00 

RT i on 




Etz Chaim . . 


3,812.00 




Mea Shearim. 


1,517.00 




Haye Olam . . 


950.00 




Har Zion . . . 


634.00 




Doresh Zion . 


606.00 




Yemenite . . . 


360.00 




Hungarians . 


610.00 




Georgians . . . 


120.00 




Sephardim 


50.00 




Etz Chaim . . 


oo.oyu 
. 7,630.00 




Mea Shearim. 


3,159.00 




Haye Olam . 


1,670.00 




Har Zion . . . 


1,165.00 




Doresh Zion . 


1,561.00 




Yemenite . . . 


648.00 




Hungarians 


1,387.00 




Georgians . . . 


225.00 




Sephardim . . 


110.00 




Moroccans . . 


30.00 




i 1 o .oov 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 115 

II. Yesheevath. 

March. P.T. 

7 Yesheevath Etz Chaim 1,973.00 

Mea Shearim 1,974.00 

Torah Chaim 1,524.00 

Haye Olam 1,557.00 

Ohev Moshe 851.00 

Or Hadash 341.50 

" Shaare Hashomaim 865.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,500.00 

Hungarians 1,306.00 

Bachoorim 3,905.00 

£157.965 

14 " Etz Chaim 1,962.00 

Mea Shearim 2,141.00 

Torah Chaim 1,510.00 

Haye Olam 1,515.00 

Ohev Moshe 816.00 

Or Hadash 271.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 865.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,735.00 

Hungarians 1,292.00 

Bachoorim 2,255.00 

143.620 

21 " Etz Chaim 2,098.00 

Mea Shearim 2,163.00 

Torah Chaim 1,538.00 

Haye Olam 1,506.00 

Ohev Moshe 873.00 

" Shaare Hashomaim 865.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,400.00 

Hungarians 1,368.00 

Bachoorim ..;... 3,139.00 

149.500 

26 " Etz Chaim 3,050.00 

Mea Shearim 3,278.00 

Torah Chaim 2,253.00 

Haye Olam 2,359.00 

Ohev Moshe 1,307.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 1,259.00 

Or Hadash 739.00 

Hungarians 2,051.00 

Bachoorim 782.00 

Hamezuianim .... 2,270.00 

193.480 

W" £644.565 



116 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 
III. Other Talmudic Scholars. 



March. P.T. 

7 2,675.25 

14 . . . 2,840.50 

21 3,416.50 

26 3,512.00 



£124.4425 



IV. Employees and Rabbis. 

7 318.00 

14 255.00 

21 340.00 

26 408.00 



13.210 



V. Various Expenditure. 



13,7525 



£1,254.790 



I. Talmud Torah Teachers. 



April 1918. 



April. 






P.T. 


4 


Talmud 


Torah Etz Chaim . . 


3,812.00 




" 


Mea Shearim. 


1,517.00 




«i 


Haye Olam . 


950.00 




<| 


Har Zion . . . 


734.00 




II 


Doresh Zion . 


606.00 




<< 


" Yemenite . . . 


360.00 




" 


Georgians . . . 


120.00 




It 


Hungarians . 


610.00 






Sephardim . . 


50.00 
£87.590 


11 


" 


Etz Chaim . . 


5,000.00 




it 


" Mea Shearim. 


2,122.00 




If 


Haye Olam . . 


1,130.00 




II 


Har Zion . . . 


760.00 




it 


" Doresh Zion . 


727.00 




II 


" Yemenite .... 


473.00 




** 


" Hungarians . . 


832.00 




II 


" Georgians . . . 


150.00 




II 


" Sephardim . . 


50.00 




II 


Moroccans . . . 


50.00 
112.940 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



117 



April. 




P.T. 


18 Talmud Torah Etz Chaim . 


. 5,000.00 




" Mea Shearim . 


. 2,072.50 




'* Haye Olam . 


. 1,118.00 






760.00 




" Doresh Zion . 


727.00 




Yemenite . . . 


432.00 




" Hungarians . 


832.00 




" Georgians . . . 


150.00 




" Moroccans . . 


50.00 

jP 1 1 1 4 1 1 5 


21 


Etz Chaim . . 


. 5,000.00 




Mea Shearim. 


. 2,101.00 




Haye Olam . . 


. 1,118.00 




Har Zion 


760.00 




" Doresh Zion . 


727.00 




" Yemenite . . . 


432.00 




Hungarians . 


832.00 




" Sephardim . . 


50.00 




" Moroccans . . 


50.00 




Georgians . . . 


150.00 

11» Oflft 


21 


Etz Chaim . . 


. 5,000.00 




" Mea Shearim. 


. 2,072.50 




Haye Olam . . 


. 1,218.00 




Har Zion . . . 


802.00 




" Doresh Zion . 


. 1,315.00 




" Georgians . . . 


150.00 




Moroccans . . 


50.00 




" Hungarians 


832.00 

11* SOS 






£538.540 



April. 
4 



II. Yesheevath. 

Yesheevath Etz Chaim 1,978.00 

Mea Shearim 2,173.00 

Torah Chaim 1,582.00 

Haye Olam 1,630.00 

Ohev Moshe 861.00 

Or Hadash 303.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 860.00 

Hungarians 1,376.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,471.00 

Bachoorim 2,533.00 



147.«7© 



118 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

April. P.T. 

11 Yesheevath Etz Chaim 1,942.00 

Mea Shearim 2,199.00 

Torah Chaim 1,600.00 

Haye Olam 1,605.00 

Ohev Moshe 861.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 865.00 

Or Hadash 301.00 

Hamazuianim .... 1,576.50 

Bachoorim 2,558.00 

Hungarians 2,799.00 

Moroccans 75.00 

Habablin 350.00 

£167.315 

18 " Etz Chaim 2,097.00 

Mea Shearim 2,102.00 

Torah Chaim 1,640.00 

Haye Olam 1,522.00 

Ohev Moshe 898.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 865.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,430.00 

Or Hadash 309.00 

Bachoorim 3,850.00 

Hungarians 3,240.00 

Habablin 220.00 

Moroccans 100.00 

182.730 

25 Etz Chaim 2,125.00 

Mea Shearim .... 1,909.00 

Torah Chaim 2,101.00 

Haye Olam 1,859.00 

Ohev Moshe 1,082.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 751.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,425.00 

Hungarians 8,280.00 

Or Hadash 309.00 

Bachoorim 3,352.50 

Habablin 305.00 

Moroccans 100.00 

185.985 

26 Etz Chaim 2,132.00 

Mea Shearim 2,014.00 

Torah Chaim 1,985.00 

Haye Olam 1,829.00 

Ohev Moshe 1,066.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 744.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,435.00 

Hungarians 8,240.00 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



119 



April. 
26 



P.T. 

Yesheevath Or Hadash 319.00 

Bachoorim 3,100.00 

Habablin 330.00 

Moroccans 100.00 



£182.940 



£866.640 



III. Other Talmudic Scholars. 

4 1,815.00 

11 3,508.50 

18 3,014.25 

25 2,891.00 

26 2,685.25 

IV. Employees and Sundry Rabbis. 

4 150.00 

11 375.00 

18 481.00 

25 283.00 

26 295.00 

V. Various Expenditure. 

4 156.00 

11 331.00 

18 2,479.00 

25 12.00 

26 350.00 



139.140 



15.840 



84.280 



VI. Distribution of Flour. 



May 1918. 
I. Talmud Torah Teachers. 



11.400 



£1,605.840 



May. 








7 


Talmud Torah 


Etz Chaim . . 


. 5,000.00 




" " 


Mea Shearim. 


. 2,072.50 




" " 


Haye Olam . 


. 1,208.00 




" " 


Sephardim . . 


25.00 




" " 




50.00 




" " 


Georgians . . . 


160.00 




" " 




802.00 




tt a 


Doresh Zion . 


. 1,265.00 






Hungarians . 


832.00 
£114.145 



120 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



May. 








P.T. 


16 


Talmud Torah Etz Chaim . . 


5,000.00 








' Mea Shearim. 


2,160.00 








' Haye Olam . 


1,208.00 








Hungarians . . 


1,532.00 








Har Zion .... 


802.00 








Doresh Zion . 


1,265.00 








Georgians . . . 


160.00 








Sephardim . . 


25.00 








Moroccans . . 


100.00 






fioo ron 


23 






Etz Chaim . . 
Mea Shearim. 
Haye Olam . . 
Hungarians 
' Har Zion . . . 
Doresh Zion . 
Yemenite . . . 
Georgians . . . 
Habablin .... 
Yemenite . . . 


5,000.00 

2,263.50 

1,208.00 

1,532.00 

802.00 

765.00 

500.00 

160.00 

25.00 

25.00 






loo on* 


30 






Etz Chaim . . 
Mea Shearim. 
Haye Olam . . 
Hungarians 
Har Zion . . . 
Doresh Zion . 
Yemenite . . . 
Georgians . . . 
Moroccans . . 
Habablin .... 


X m fiiOVU 

5,000.00 
2,085.00 
1,208.00 
1,532.00 

934.00 

765.00 

500.00 

160.00 
50.00 
25.00 






1°° fiOfl 






fi,R n flfift 




II. Yeshee 


VATH. 


May. 






7 


Yesl 


leevath 


Etz Chaim 


2,147.00 



Mea Shearim 1,959.00 

Torah Chaim 2,124.00 

Haye Olam 1,857.00 

Ohev Moshe 1,066.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 744.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,551.50 

Hungarians 3,150.00 

Or Hadash 286.00 

Habablin 330.00 

Bachoorim 2,421.50 



176.860 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 121 

May. P.T. 

16 Yesheevath Etz Chaim 2,213.00 

Mea Shearim 1,932.00 

Torah Chaim 2,011.00 

Haye Olam 1,829.00 

Ohev Moshe 1,063.00 

Bachoorim . . 3,609.50 

Shaare Hashomaim 784.00 

Or Hadash 319.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,435.00 

Hungarians 3,280.00 

Habablin 830.00 

£188.050 

23 " Etz Chaim 2,185.00 

Mea Shearim 2,014.00 

Torah Chaim 2,096.00 

Haye Olam 1,829.00 

Ohev Moshe 1,041.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 794.00 

Or Hadash 443.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,415.00 

Bachoorim 3,218.00 

Hungarians . 3,215.00 

182.500 

30 " Etz Chaim 2,205.00 

Mea Shearim .... 1,984.00 

Torah Chaim 2,171.00 

Haye Olam 1,965.00 

Ohev Moshe 1,131.00 

Shaare Hashomaim 794.00 

Or Hadash 514.00 

Hamezuianim .... 1,572.00 

Hungarians 3,375.00 

Bachoorim 4,660.00 

203.710 

£750.625 

III. Other Talmudic Scholars. 

7 2,523.50 

16 2,455.50 

28 3,405.50 

80 2,852.00 



112.365 



IV. Employees and Rabbis. 

7 225.00 

16 225.00 

23 585.00 

80 845.00 



18.800 



122 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 
V. Various Expenditure. 



May. P.T. 

7 70.00 

16 160.00 

23 225.00 

30 444.00 



£8.990 



VI. Special Distribution to Sephardic Talmudic Scholars. 

394.750 



£1,767.590 



RECAPITULATION OF THE EXPENDITURE 1918. 





January 


February 


March 




P.T. 


P.T. 


P.T. 


Talmud Torah Teachers 


29,414.00 


42,020.50 


45,882.00 




13,762.00 


54,181.50 


64,456.50 




454.25 


6,874.50 


12,444.25 




430.00 


1,002.00 


1,321.00 


Various Expenditure 


491.00 


625.50 


1,375.25 


Distribution of Flour 


18,221.00 


1,514.00 




Loss of Exchange 


4,237.70 






Special Distribution to Sephar- 

















Total 



71,109.95 106,218.00 125,479.00 





April 


May 


Total 




P.T. 


P.T. 


P.T. 


Talmud Torah Teachers 


53,854.00 


48,206.00 


219,376.50 


Yesheevath 


86,664.00 


75,062.50 


294,126.50 


Talmudic Scholars 


13,914.00 
1,584.00 


11,236.50 
1,880.00 


49,023.50 


Employees and Rabbis 


6,217.00 




3,428.00 


899.00 


6,818.75 


Distribution of Flour 


1,140.00 




20,875.00 


Loss of Exchange 






4,237.70 


Special Distribution to Sephar- 












39,475.00 


89,475.00 



Total 160,584.00 176,759.00 640,149.95 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



123 



APPENDIX 76. 



Support to Individual Cases. 



1918. 




January : 


1 Donation of 


8 


« «« 


3 


' " 


17 


• tt 


3 


i ii 


1 


' " 


1 


' " 


4 


' " 


4 


' " 


28 


t «< 


2 


' " 


1 


< << 


1 


t a 


1 


' " 


1 


i « 


February : 




21 


' " 


39 


' " 


26 


' " 


1 


i <i 


56 


' " 


35 


i <i 


8 


' " 


1 


' " 


1 


' " 


60 


* a 


4 


' " 


1 


< << 


1 


C it 


1 


t a 


1 


i ti 


March : 




2 


t tt 


1 


' " 


412 


' " 


22 


t tt 


51 


t ti 


59 


t it 


18 


t it 


1 


i << 


92 


i tt 


38 


' " 


2 


i it 


4 


i it 


1 


t n 



P.T. 


P.T. 


5.0 


5.0 


10.0 


80.0 


15.0 


45.0 


20.0 


340.0 


25.0 


75.0 


13.0 


13.0 


18.0 


18.0 


30.0 


120.0 


40.0 


160.0 


50.0 


1,400.0 


60.0 


120.0 


80.0 


80.0 


90.0 


90.0 


100.0 


100.0 


150.0 


150.0 


5.0 


105.0 


10.0 


390.0 


15.0 


390.0 


18.0 


18.0 


20.0 


1,120.0 


25.0 


875.0 


30.0 


240.0 


36.0 


36.0 


40.0 


40.0 


50.0 


3,000.0 


100.0 


400.0 


150.0 


150.0 


200.0 


200.0 


300.0 


300.0 


288.0 


288.0 


5.0 


10.0 


6.0 


6.0 


10.0 


4,120.0 


15.0 


330.0 


20.0 


1,020.0 


25.0 


1,475.0 


30.0 


540.0 


40.0 


40.0 


50.0 


4,600.0 


100.0 


3,800.0 


150.0 


300.0 


200.0 


800.0 


250.0 


250.0 



L.E. 



27.960 



75.520 



124 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

March. P.T. P.T. L.E. 

2 Donation of 300.0 600.0 

1 " " 475.0 475.0 

1 " " 21.6 21.6 



April : 

1 " " 3.0 8.0 

1 " " 7.5 7.5 

41 " " 10.0 410.0 

71 " " 15.0 1,065.0 

49 " " 20.0 980.0 

57 " " 25.0 1,425.0 

8 " " 30.0 240.0 

4 " " 35.0 140.0 

8 " " 40.0 120.0 

120 " " 50.0 6,000.0 

1 " " 75.0 75.0 

1 " " 80.0 80.0 

80 " " 100.0 3,000.0 

1 " " 121.0 121.0 

4 " " 200.0 800.0 

2 " " 800.0 600.0 

1 " " 400.0 400.0 

£99*91 

May: 

46 " " 10.0 460.0 

48 " " • 15.0 720.0 

1 " " 17.5 17.5 

94 " " 20.0 1,880.0 

85 " " 25.0 2,125.0 

88 " " 30.0 2,640.0 

6 " " 40.0 240.0 

195 " " 50.0 9,750.0 

2 " " 60.0 120.0 

1 " " 65.0 65.0 

1 " " 70.0 70.0 

8 " " 75.0 225.0 

1 " " 80.0 8C.0 

78 " " 100.0 7,300.0 

1 " *' 108.0 108.0 

1 " " 128.0 128.0 

2 " " 150.0 300.0 

8 " " 200.0 1,600.0 

1 " " 250.0 250.0 

6 " " 300.0 1,800.0 

1 " " 350.0 350.0 

2 " " 400.0 800.0 

Sundries • • 162.5 

Repair of the Yemenites Well in Silouan . . 2,122.5 



183.876 



333.735 



Total . . . , 775.756 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



125 



RECAPITULATION. 



January 

February 

March 


76 
255 
706 


April 
May 


893 

666 



Cases 



Less: Donations restituted to other accounts. 



£27.960 
75.520 
183.876 
154.665 
333.785 



£775.756 
56.206 



APPENDIX 77. 



£719.548 



American Exiles and their Families. 



1918. 
January. 


Persons 


P.T. 
Week 
No. 1 


P.T. 
Week 
No. 2 


P.T. 
Week 
No. 3 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 4 


A Family of 


3 
3 


54 
27 


27 


54 




" " " 


2 


18 


18 




18 


" " " 


8 


27 


27 




. . 


" " " 


7 


63 


63 




50 


" " " 


4 


36 


. . 






" " " 


6 


54 


54 




54 


" " " 


2 


18 


18 


18 




" " " 


5 


45 


45 




45 


" " " 


6 


54 


54 




54 


ii ii ii 


2 


18 


18 




. . 


ii ii ii 


1 


9 


9 




9 


" " " 


2 


18 


. . 






ii i« ii 


5 


45 


. . 




90 


•< ii ii 


1 


9 


. . 


9 


9 


ii ii ii 


3 


27 


27 




27 


•• ii ii 


4 


36 


86 




36 


" " " 


4 


86 


36 




86 


•' " " 


8 


27 


27 




27 


" " " 


2 


18 


18 


18 




" " " 


8 


27 


27 






ii ii ii 


7 


63 


63 




68 


ii n <i 


9 


81 


81 


31 


50 


ii n n 


4 


36 


. . 




50 


" " " 


7 


63 


63 




50 


" " " 


4 


36 


36 




36 


ii ii ii 


4 


86 


36 




36 


ii ii ii 


6 


54 


54 




54 


.1 ii ii 


1 


9 


9 




9 


'* " " 


3 


27 


27 


27 




,i ii ii 


4 


54 


54 


54 


54 


ii «i ii 


9 


81 


81 






ii ii ii 


1 


9 


9 


. . 


9 


" " " 


4 


38 


36 


. . 


72 



126 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



1918. 












January. 




P.T. 

Week 


P.T. 
Week 


P.T. 

Week 


P.T. 

Week 




Persons 


No. 1 


No. 2 


No. 3 


No. 4 


A Family of 


4 


36 


36 




36 


" " " 


2 


18 


18 




18 




2 


18 


18 






" " " 


2 


. . 


18 




, . 


a ** it 


6 




, . 




54 


" " " 


7 


63 


63 


63 


50 




6 


54 


54 


54 


54 


" " " 


3 


27 


27 


. . 




ti << «< 


6 


54 


54 


54 


54 


44 Families 


174 


1,521 


1,341 


382 


1,204 


1918. 












February : 












A Family of 


3 


81 


. . 


27 


27 


" " " 


7 


139 


63 


50 


76 


" " " 


7 


139 


63 


63 


63 


a .< << 


7 


126 


63 


63 


63 


" " " 


9 


162 


81 


81 


81 


" " " 


6 


108 


54 


54 


54 


" " " 


6 


108 


54 


54 


54 


it a a 


5 


90 


45 


45 


45 


it tt << 


6 


108 


54 


54 


54 


a it << 


5 


90 


45 


45 


45 


it ii ii 


3 


81 


27 


27 


27 




7 


76 


63 


50 


76 


" " " 


4 


72 


86 


36 


36 


" " " 


4 


72 


86 


36 


86 


" " " 


4 


72 


36 


36 


36 


tt a ti 


4 


72 


86 


86 


86 


it tt it 


4 


144 


86 


36 


86 


" " " 


6 


54 


54 


54 


54 


" " " 


3 


54 




27 


27 


" " " 


6 


54 


54 


54 


54 


" " " 


6 


54 


54 


54 


54 


" " " 


8 


54 


27 


27 


27 


" " " 


2 


54 


18 


18 


18 


" " " 


6 


54 


54 


54 


54 


tt l( CI 


3 


54 


27 


27 


27 


" " " 


2 


54 


18 


18 


18 


" " " 


4 


36 


36 


36 


36 


<< << << 


2 


36 


18 


18 


18 


" " " 


2 


86 


18 


18 


18 


" " " 


2 


86 


18 


18 


18 


" '* " 


2 


36 




18 


18 


" " " 


1 


18 


9 


9 


9 


" " " 


1 


18 


9 


9 


9 


" " " 


4 


72 


86 


36 


86 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



127 



1918. 
February. 


Persons 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 1 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 2 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 3 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 4 


A Family of 


3 

4 


54 
94 


27 


27 
36 


27 
36 


" " 


1 




18 


9 


9 


<: ,c << 


1 


. , 


9 


9 


9 


" 


8 


27 


81 


27 


27 


" 


2 




18 


50 


18 


tt (< tt 


2 


, . 


18 


50 


40 


" 


9 


, . 




324 


81 


it a (t 


3 


, , 


27 




54 


" 


6 


. # 


, . 


54 


54 


" " " 


7 








'4 


63 


45 Families 


187 


2,689 


1,440 


1,81 


1,758 


1918. 












March: 












A Family of 

tt a tt 


1 
1 


59 
9 


9 


9 


9 


" " " 


1 


9 


9 




18 


" " " 


1 


9 


9 






18 




2 


18 


18 






36 


,< .< it 


2 


18 


18 






36 


" " " 


2 


18 


18 






36 


" " " 


2 


18 


18 






86 


" " " 


2 


18 


18 








" 


2 


18 


. . 






27 


" 


2 


18 


18 






36 


" " " 


3 


27 


27 


27 


54 


" 


3 


27 




27 


54 


tt a tt 


3 


27 


27 




54 


it tt tt 


3 


27 








81 


" " " 


3 


27 


27 






54 


" " " 


3 


27 








81 




4 


36 


36 






72 


" " 


4 


36 


36 


86 


36 


tt 


4 


36 


86 


86 


72 


" " 


4 


86 


36 




72 


" 


4 


86 


36 




72 


<« « 


4 


36 


36 




72 


" " " 


4 


36 


36 




72 


" " " 


4 


36 


86 


. . 


72 


•' 


2 


36 


18 


. . 


36 


" 


5 


45 


45 


. . 


90 


" 


5 


45 


45 




90 


" 


7 


50 


80 


144 


63 


" 


6 


54 


54 


. , 


108 


" 


6 


54 


54 


. . 


108 


" 


6 


54 


54 




, , 


108 



128 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



March. 


Persons 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 1 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 2 


P.T. P.T. 
Week Week 
No. 3 No. 4 


A Family of 
« << << 


6 
6 


54 
54 


54 
54 


• 


126 
108 


" " " 


6 


54 


54 




108 




6 


54 


54 




108 


a a << 


6 


54 


54 




108 


" " " 


6 


. . 






. , 


a << << 


7 


63 


68 




126 


<< << << 


7 


63 


63 


. 


126 


<< <« a 


7 


63 


63 




126 


<< << << 


9 


81 


81 




162 


CI II II 


9- 


81 


81 


. 


162 


f< << << 


a 


27 


27 


. 


54 


<( << « 


2 




36 


. 


36 


<< << <« 


2 


. . 


18 




36 


ff << << 


3 


. . 


81 




54 


<f << <« 


6 


•• 






54 


48 Families 


197 


1,711 


1,633 


279 3,893 


1918. 












April : 












A Family of 


6 
6 


54 
54 


45 
54 


54 54 
54 54 


" " " 


6 


54 


108 


. 


54 


" " " 


7 


63 


63 


63 63 


" " " 


7 


63 


63 


63 63 


" " " 


7 


63 


81 


50 94 


a a a 


7 


63 


63 


63 63 


a << << 


7 


63 


63 


63 68 


a K «< 


9 


81 


81 


81 81 


" " " 


9 


81 


81 


81 81 


" " " 


2 


18 


18 


18 18 


" " " 


2 




36 


18 


" " " 


3 




54 


27 


" " " 


3 


54 


. . 




54 


" " " 


3 




54 


27 27 


" " " 


3 




54 


27 18 


" " " 


4 




72 


36 


" " " 


7 




126 




126 


" " " 


2 




36 


. 


. . . 


" " 


1 




18 


« 


3 9 


" " " 


G 




108 


54 54 


" " " 


3 




27 


54 27 


" " " 


1 


9 


9 




) 9 


" " " 


1 


9 


9 


j 


? 9 


n << << 


1 


9 


9 


9 9 


" " " 


2 


18 




86 18 


" *' " 


2 


18 


18 


18 18 



£70.160 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



129 



1918. 
April. 


Persons 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 1 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 2 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 3 


P.T. 

Week 
No. 4 


A Family of 


2 


18 


18 


18 


18 


" " " 


2 


18 


18 


18 


18 


<< << << 


2 


18 


18 


18 


18 


it tt a 


3 


27 


27 


27 


27 


il tt ft 


3 


27 


27 


27 


27 


ti tt II 


4, 


36 


36 


36 


36 


tt It t( 


4 


36 


36 


86 


36 


It tt It 


4 


36 


36 


36 


36 


it tt if 


4 


36 


36 


36 


36 


it tt ft 


4 


36 


. . 


72 


36 


It II «« 


4 


36 


36 


36 


36 


ll It 11 


5 


45 


45 


45 


45 


It tt It 


5 


45 


45 


45 


45 


It II II 


5 


45 


45 


45 


45 


" 


6 


64 


. . 


108 


54 


" " " 


6 


54 


54 


54 


54 


It II tt 


6 


54 


54 


54 


54 


<< 11 11 


6 


54 


54 


54 


54 


" " " 


1 




9 


9 


9 


1. <i «« 


3 




. . 


81 


27 


II II if 


1 




. . 


9 


. . 


" " " 


1 




. . 


9 


. . 




1 




•• 


•• 


9 


50 Families 


199 


1,395 


1,998 


1,796 


1,786 


1918. 












May: 












A Family of 


5 


90 


90 


45 




ll a it 


6 


108 


108 


54 




" 


6 


108 


108 


54 




tt it it 


6 


108 


108 


54 




" " " 


I 


126 


126 


63 






7 


126 


126 


63 




" " " 


7 


126 


126 


63 




" " " 


7 


126 


126 


68 




" 


8 


144 


144 


72 




it it it 


9 


162 


162 


81 




" " " 


1 


18 


18 


. . 




" " " 


1 


18 


18 


9 




" " " 


1 


18 


18 


9 




" " " 


2 


36 


86 


18 




" 


2 


36 


36 


18 




it li ti 


2 


36 


18 


9 




it ii ll 


2 


36 


36 


18 




it it ti 


2 


36 


86 


18 




it it il 


5 


45 


90 


90 




" " " 


3 


54 


54 


27 





130 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 



1918. 
May. 



A Family of 



P.T. 

Week 
Persons No. 1 



54 
64 
54 

54 

54 

54 

72 

72 

72 

72 

72 

72 

72 

81 

90 

108 

18 

18 

108 

162 

126 

18 

108 

108 

36 

108 

108 

54 



P.T. 

Week 
No. 2 

54 

54 

54 

36 

36 

54 

54 

72 

72 

36 

72 

72 

72 

72 

54 

90 

72 

18 

18 

108 

162 

126 

18 

108 

108 

36 

108 

108 

54 



P.T. 

Week 
No. 3 

27 

27 

27 

18 

18 

27 

27 

36 

86 

18 

36 

36 

86 

36 

27 

45 

86 

9 

9 

54 

81 

63 

9 

54 

54 

18 

54 

54 

27 



P.T. 
Week 
No. 4 



49 Families 199 3,636 3,582 1,827 = 



£90.450 



RECAPITULATION OF APPENDIX 77. 

American Exiles and Their Families. 
1918. 

January 44 Families = 174 Persons £44.480 

February 45 Families = 187 Persons 77.610 

March " 48 Families = 197 Persons 70.160 

April 50 Families = 199 Persons 69.750 

May 49 Families = 199 Persons 90.450 

Our part in the expenses of British Palestine Fund in favor 

of the American Exiles £18.895 

Our part in the expenses of the American Exiles paid by 

the Palestine Zionist Office 34.830 

Total £406.175 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 



131 



1918 January-March 
April 
May 



APPENDIX 78. 
Medical Help. 

Our Payments £434.715 

Our Payments 140.000 

Our Payments 581.378 



1918# APPENDIX 79. 
January: Loans to Institutions. 

Old Aged Home 


£5.000 
13.000 
6.000 
26.000 
20.000 


£1,156.093 


Bluruenthal Orphanage 




Blumenthal Orphanage 




Ezra Orphanage 


£70.000 


February : 

Blumenthal Orphanage 


28.000 
20.000 
10.000 
30.000 
6.000 


Weingarten Orphanage 

Blinds' Home 




Old Aged Home 

Lunatic Asylum 






94.000 


March : 

Soup Kitchen Amsterdam Committee. . 
Old Aged Home 


44.000 
36.900 
52.210 
40.000 
63.050 
25.000 


Blumenthal Orphanage 




Blinds' Home 






261.160 


April : 

Lunatic Asylum 


40.000 
25.000 
40.000 
40.000 
50.000 


Blumenthal Orphanage 




Old Aged Home 






195.000 


May: 

Kadima Workshop 

Kolel Seibenbuergen 


40.000 
22.000 
61.700 
50.000 
30.000 
77.000 
50.000 
12.500 
71.625 
80.000 


Bikkur Cholim Hospital 

Weingarten Orphanage 




Blumenthal Orphanage 

Lunatic Asylum 




Misgav Ladach Hospital 


494.825 




442.000 
100.000 


Soup Kitchen Amsterdam Committee . . . 


542.000 







£1,656.985 



132 



1918. 
January : 



February : 



March : 



April: 



Joint Distribution Committee of the 
APPENDIX 80. 
Loans to Individuals. 



2 Loans 
1 

4 
1 



11 



2 
9 

1 

10 

8 

1 
15 

1 
17 

1 

7 
34 

1 



5 

1 

28 

5 

14 

11 

4 

6 

1 

1 



P.T.200 = 

100 = 

50 = 

30 = 



P.T.400 

100 

200 

80 



50 = 


550 


100 = 


300 


125 = 


125 


500 = 


1,000 


25 = 


50 


50 = 


450 


75 = 


75 


100 = 


1,000 


150 — 


450 


175 = 


175 


200 = 


3,000 


250 = 


250 


300 = 


5,100 


350 = 


350 


400 = 


2,800 


500 = 


17,000 


2,000 — 


2,000 


1,000 = 


5,000 


800 = 


800 


500 = 


14,000 


400 = 


2,000 


300 = 


5,700 


200 = 


2,200 


50 = 


200 


100 = 


600 


1,500 = 


1,500 


600 == 


600 



£7.300 



19.750 



327.000 



326.000 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 
May: 



133 



1 Loans @ P.T.2,000 = 
34 " 500 = 
1 800 = 


P.T.2,000 

17,000 

800 




8 


200 = 




1,600 




8 


100 — 




800 




3 


150 = 




450 




40 


300 = 




12,000 




3 

1 


1,000 == 
450 = 




3,000 
450 




1 


600 = 




600 




1 


350 = 




350 


410.500 


309 Loans 








£1,090.550 




APPENDIX 81. 










Passover Distribution. 








A. Matzoth. 









a. Individuals : 

2395 Ashkenasic Families with 10,386 Souls 
2535 Sephardic Families with 10,502 Souls 



4930 



20,888 Souls 
At one Rotel per soul 20,888 Rotels 



b. Institutions : 

Rotels 

Sephardic Orphanage 21.00 

Diskin Orphanage 250.00 

Hilfsverein Orphanage 33.00 

Kolel Hungaria Orphans 28.00 

Weingarten Orphanage 137.50 

Blumenthal Orphanage 162.50 

Teachers' Seminary 29.00 

Tachkemoni Teachers 12.00 

Shaare Zedek Hospital 81.00 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 37.50 

Blinds' Home 40.00 

Lunatic Asylum 56.50 

General Old Aged Home 150.00 

Sephardic Old Aged Home 20.00 

Staff of Institutions 1,058.00 

94 Souls at 1.25 Rotels 188.50 



1,246.50 



134 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

RECAPITULATION. 

Rotels 

Individuals . 20,888.00 

Institutions 1,246.50 

22,134.50 

£5,512.188 
B. Expenses. 

Transport £57.022 

Brokerage 22.055 

Printing . 23.640 

Ritual Supervision and control of the bakers 78.158 

Sundry Expenses 24.950 

£205.825 
C. Wine. 

a. Individuals : 

Ashkenasim 10,272 Souls 

Sephardim 10,488 Souls 

20,760 Souls 

At 1 Okia per soul 20,760 Okias 

Extra distribution among Talmudic Scholars 600 Okias 

21,360 Okias 

b. Institutions : Okias 

Sephardic Orphanage 21 

Diskin Orphanage 200 

Kolel Hungaria Orphans 28 

Blumenthal Orphanage 130 

Weingarten Orphanage 110 

Bikkur Cholim Hospital 43 

Blinds' Home 40 

Lunatic Asylum 45 

General Old Aged Home 120 

737 
RECAPITULATION. 

Individuals 21 360 

Institutions 737 

22,097 
Donations of the Rishon Wine Growers' Society "Carmel 

Oriental" 4^000 

18,097 
£290.25 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 135 

D. Rice. 

a. Individuals: 

2143 Ashkenasie families with 10,100 Souls 

2364 Sephardic families with 10,378 Souls 

20,478 Souls 

About a quarter of a rotel per soul 5,118.66 Rotels 

Extra distribution to 483 souls 12.75 Rotels 

5,239.41 Rotels 

b. Institutions : Rotels 

Sephardic Orphanage 5.25 

Diskin Orphanage 48.75 

Hilfsverein Orphanage 8.25 

Weingarten Orphanage 27.50 

Blumenthal Orphanage 37.50 

Shaare Zedek Orphanage 20.25 

Blinds' Home 9.75 

Lunatic Asylum 1 1.25 

General Old Aged Home 30.00 

Sephardic Old Aged Home 6.00 



204.50 
RECAPITULATION. 

Individuals 5,239.41 Rotels 

Institutions 204.50 Rotels 



5,443.91 Rotels 



£489.955 



GENERAL RECAPITULATION. 

Matzoth £5,512.1888 

Expenses 205.8250 

Wines 290.2500 

Rice 489.9550 



£6,498.2188 



1918. 
February : 
Erub 


C< 


APPENDIX 82. 

)mmunal Expenses. 


£6,000 
12.000 


Mikvah . . . 






















April : 

Erub 


2 000 


Cleaning of 
Erub 


Synagogue 








2.000 
5 000 


Mishmereth 


Hakodesh 








10.000 













£18.000 



19.000 



136 Joint Distribution Committee of the 

May: 

Cleaning Shimon Hazadik's Cavern £1.500 

Cleaning Synagogues 500 

Erub 2.500 

Cleaning Synagogues 1.000 

Sundries 1.000 

Mishmereth Hakodesh 10.000 

Mikvah 1.500 

Mikvah 4.250 

Notice concerning Public Health 200 

Erub 2.000 

Mikvah 1.500 

Cleaning Synagogues 1.500 

Printing for Rabbinical Colleges 700 

—— — 28.150 



£65.150 



APPENDIX 83. 
Jewish British Soldiers' Reception. 

Paid for Passover Reception of 300 soldiers as per speci- 
fied account of the Reception Committee £502.600 

Subsidy to the Reception Committee for 100 soldiers at 

Pentecost 70.000 



£572.660 

APPENDIX 84. 

Sundry Expenses. 

Transport of Egyptian Wheat from Jaffa to Jerusalem by 

Messrs. Thos. Cook & Sons, Ltd £243.735 

Expenses of Rice and Flour Distributions 133.062 

Grinding Expenses 361.944 

Sundry Expenses 121.939 

£860.680 
APPENDIX 85. 

Office Expenses. 

Salaries £716.251 

Stationery 69.760 

Office Expenses 34.645 

Passover Fees 41.845 

£867.501 



American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers 137 

APPENDIX 86. 
Loss of Exchange. 

Loss : On payments to : Millers and private persons in Turkish Gold : 

Berman Bros £103.607 

Frankel 34.639 

Spitzer 48.937 

Roth S 38.321 

Millers through Mr. S. Schocher 39.493 

£264.997 

Profit: 

From Jewish Food Committee, difference 

in account 3.140 

From the Miller Slowes 31.000 

From the Central Administration, profit 

on various accounts 26.450 

60.570 

Net £204.427 

APPENDIX 87. 

Creditors 1917 Paid in 1918. 

Mr. S. Schocher £86.100 

Millers : Berman Bros 225.890 

Spitzer 106.700 

Frankel 75.530 

£494.220 
APPENDIX 88. 

Sundry Stocks of Food-Stuffs. 

Flour 34.70 Rotels @ P.T.10.00 £3.470 

Flour 51.25 Rotels @ 12.00 6.150 

£9.620 

Rice 232.86 Rotels @ 9.00 20.958 

Bread 507.02 Rotels @ 8.00 40.563 

Lentils 13.00 Kilos @ 5.00 650 

£71.791 
APPENDIX 89. 

Cash Balance 31st May 1918. 

The Balance of £55.690 

has remained in the cash of the Jerusalem Office and 
has been taken over by the Zionist Commission. 



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